Benedictine

If you long for more meaningful connections to other people

In The Wisdom of Stability, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove illuminates the bible and monastic understanding of why staying in one place is both a virtue, and good for you.

Ancient Paths offers personal and practical insights into “The Rule of St. Benedict”, an ancient guidebook for Christian formation in community. Drawing upon centuries of Benedictine spirituality and monastic spiritual practices, Ancient Paths presents a five-fold approach to spiritual formation in community.

"In a world that keeps asking us to go higher and faster, how do we begin to go deeper, into the place where God lives and moves and has His being within us?" Robert Benson

Cardinal Hume offers words of understanding, encouragement, and hope that speak to us whatever our condition, whatever our beliefs.

Meet the incomparable Hildegard of Bingen. Nourishing, challenging, and idea-bursting, her writings will stir and awaken your soul.

In today's hectic, changing world, being an oblate offers a rich, spiritual connection to the stability and wisdom of an established monastic community.

For today's hungry Christians, teachings on the Rule of Saint Benedict by one of the twentieth century's best-loved Catholic writers.

For today's hungry Christians, teachings on the Rule of Saint Benedict by one of the twentieth century's best-loved Catholic writers.

Sharing monastic wisdom as well as stories from their own lives, this Benedictine monk and Catholic laywoman reveal the true meaning of hospitality.

How can I practice hospitality today? In a world that is so unsafe? Saint Benedict shows us how.

Eloquent and incisive, Casey invites us to embrace the challenge of gospel living, which is opposed to the dominant, secular culture around us. He presents thoughtful reflections on the values of asceticism, silence, leisure, reading, chastity, and poverty.

How do we find God in a busy and noisy world? The Mystery of Love is a collection of "starting points" to inspire prayer and meditation, by one of the spiritual masters of our age.

At once deeply comforting and sharply challenging, true Benedictine hospitality requires that we welcome the stranger, not only into our homes, but into our hearts. In Radical Hospitality, with warmth, humor, and the wisdom of the monastic tradition, Lonni Collins Pratt presents a radical vision for a kinder world, informed and enriched by contemporary monks including Fr. Daniel Homan, and many others.

This new edition has been updated thoroughly throughout. It includes two new chapters, a new Introduction, and more ancient and contemporary monastic insight.

A delightful, behind-the-scenes, guided tour of a typical monastery in the twenty-first century.