Monasticism & Asceticism
epub |eng | | Author:Ignatius Brianchaninov

-9- Higher Levels of Prayer Before coming to a description of the method offered by the Holy Fathers almost exclusively to those living in silence, we consider it necessary to ...
( Category: Monasticism & Asceticism February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Thomas Merton [Merton, Thomas]

Cries of “Slay, slay and awe-inspiring mantras…[but] flee not.” I close my eyes and see the colors of Indian blankets. The little Japanese baby cries with a fine clear shining ...
( Category: Religious August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Crislip, Andrew;

Palamon’s illness evokes Athanasius’s description of Antony in old age, never relenting in his askēsis and yet enjoying perfect health until death at 105. The Great Coptic Life, in contrast, ...
( Category: Monasticism & Asceticism May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Lewis, James R., Cusack, Carole M.

Chapter 8 So Costly a Sacrifice Upon the Altar of Freedom: Human Bombs, Suicide Attacks, and Patriotic Heroes Mattias Gardell Introduction In the biblical story of Samson (Judges 13–16), the ...
( Category: Suicide June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-01 | Author:John Binns [Binns, John]

'I trust they won't boil over.' Reid gazed at him levelly. 'A range of interests that includes even yourself, Doc tor. ' 'Yes, she knows all about you,' spat Guzman ...
( Category: Anthologies December 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Patrick Leigh Fermor

FROM SOLESMES TO LA GRANDE TRAPPE AFTER St. Wandrille, nothing in the routine of life at Solesmes proved unfamiliar. Its saga, from the time of its foundation in the eleventh ...
( Category: General June 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1997-11-02 | Author:John Cassian & Boniface Ramsey

2. "He believed that in the first place he should mention fornication, which occurs in carnal union. He called the second member impurity, which sometimes creeps up on those who ...
( Category: Monasticism & Asceticism March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-06 | Author:St. Basil & Anna M. Silvas

1 Basili Regula—A Rufino Latine Versa (Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1986). 2 See also the critical edition of this preface by Manlius Simonetti: “Tyranni Rufini Prologus in Regulam Sancti Basilii,” 239–41 in ...
( Category: Monasticism & Asceticism March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Reese, Abbie

4 Little House, Big Heart It’s a whole different world that we’re living in. Mother Miryam of Jesus There is a scene that Sister Mary Gemma conjures easily. She has ...
( Category: Monasticism & Asceticism March 25,2014 )