Books from Cistercian Publications
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Асимптотические методы исследования периодических решений нелинейных гиперболических уравнений
By A. I︠U︡ KolesovP. 33–40 . 2. Duffy G.G. New uses for wооd рulр fiber // Tappi J. 1987. Мау . P. 107-112 . 3. Walmsley M.R.W. , Duffy G.G. Reducing pipeline pressure gradients of coarse - coal slurries with wood pulp fibres // Hydrotransport : Proc .
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Saint Mary of Egypt: Three Medieval Lives in Verse
By Ronald E. PepinThe saintly austerities of Mary of Egypt so impressed early monks that they recorded her life to edify their brethren. Many versions circulated and the tale traveled from Palestine to...
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Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers
By Apostolos N. AthanassakisThe insights of the desert monks of the fifth and sixth centuries amaze, and startle, readers by their wisdom. Among other things, they teach that the first step in overcoming...
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Medieval Religious Women
By John A. Nichols, Lillian Thomas ShankMedieval Religious Women
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Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season
By Saint BernardThe twelfth-century abbot and contemplative known to history as The Mellifluous Teacher' wrote sermons for the entire Christmas liturgical cycle -- from the first Sunday of Advent (four weeks before...
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Thomas Merton's Shared Contemplation: A Protestant Perspective
By Daniel J. AdamsThomas Merton's Shared Contemplation: A Protestant Perspective
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Mary Most Holy: Meditating with the Early Cistercians
The White Monks' devotion to the Mother of God moved them to commit all their monasteries to her patronage. The most famous of them all, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, has...
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Tuning in to Grace: The Quest for God
By André LoufHow can we attune ourselves to God's grace? It always takes a lifetime to do - and this is because God wants it so. When first surprised by grace, people...
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Homilies on the Gospels: Lent to the Dedication of the Church
By Saint BedeFrom the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, Bede's authority as a scriptural exegete was second only to that of the Doctors of the Latin Church. His influence was enormous. Yet...
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Inside the School of Charity: Lessons from the Monastery
By Trisha DayFilled with stories from her own life and fascinating details of daily life in the monastery, her book is sure to strike a spark with all those seeking to live in a fully human and Christ-centered way.
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An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: Initiation Into the Monastic Tradition 3
By Thomas MertonIn these conferences dating to 1961, Thomas Merton provides for his audience of young monks an overview of major themes and figures in the Christian mystical tradition as an integral...
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Partnership with Christ: A Cistercian Retreat
By Eugene Boylan, Chaminade CrabtreeThis is the best retreat we ever had at Gethsemani," commented Thomas Merton of the talks reproduced in this volume.
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Bede the Venerable: Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles
By David HurstThey are unique in that he inclined more to the literal interpretation of the text than he did in his more allegorical later commentaries. Preachers will find them useful; readers will find them illuminating.
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The Venerable Bede Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
By BedaThe Venerable Bede Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
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Bernard of Clairvaux: On Baptism and the Office of Bishops, on the Conduct and Office of Bishops, on Baptism and...
By Saint BernardTwo lengthy letters from the abbot of Clairvaux illuminate the transition in theological method in the mid twelfth-century. In this letter to the bishop of Sens on the responsibilities of...
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The Difficult Saint: Bernard of Clairvaux and His Tradition
By Brian Patrick McGuireBorn in 1090, Bernard of Clairvaux died sixty-three years later, and was canonized in 1174. His friends and brothers began writing his official life even before he died, so convinced...
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The Practical and Theological Chapters ; And, Three Theological Discourses
By SimeonSymeon the New Theologian transformed the Evagrian tradition of hesychia, with its insistence on absolute solitude remote from the affairs of men, and practised it in a monastery in the...
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The Luminous Eye: The Spiritual World Vision of Saint Ephrem
By Sebastian P. BrockSebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of Wolfson College. He has written extensively on Syriac subjects and served...
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Friendship & Community: The Monastic Experience, 350-1250
By Brian Patrick McGuire"I assume that historical sources can convey human feeling, even though it is fruitless to psychologize individual friends or to reach complete explanations about their motives. I simply accept that...
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Five Books on Consideration: Advice to a Pope
By Bernard, Heiliger), AbtAlways a vigorous champion of papal reforms, Bernard of Clairvaux toward the end of his life saw one of his own monks raised to the papal throne as Eugene III....