This second volume on Eastern Christian spirituality amplifies in depth the final two chapters of...

The psalms are at the very heart of monastic prayer. Recited seven times a day in the liturgy and...

Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fello...

The distinctive prophetic quality of Thomas Merton's spirituality, shaped byfigures ranging from ...

Educated at the abbeys of Bonnevaux and Cluny and at the court of his kinsman, Conrad of Hohensta...

A commonly held impression is that Pope Francis is a compassionate shepherd and determined leader...

For many Christian leaders, the experience of ministry includes enough conflict and disappointmen...

As master of novices for ten years (1955-1965) at the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani ...

Cristiana Piccardo was the long-time abbess of an unusual Cisterciancommunity in Italy. 'We have ...

Saint Bernard was born in 1090 near Dijon, France. He joined the fifteen-year-old monastery of Ci...

Richard Methley (ca. 1450-1527 8), a Carthusian of Mount Grace, was the last great mystic before ...

On Grace and Free Choice came early from the pen of the young abbot of Clairvaux, in response to ...