Publication
Imprint: Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, c2011. Responsibility: Joan Chittister. OCLC Number: 719714703. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xxv, 129 pages ; 21 cm.
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Precepts / Chitt
ISBN
9780814633656
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CSS Library Notes
Named person: St Benedict .
Description: In this book, The Radical Christian Life: A Year with Saint Benedict, Joan Chittister encourages us to look at that question. In an introductory essay she examines how the insights and values of the sixth-century Visionary Saint Benedict can illuminate today's search for a meaningful life. Then she leads us through the year, reflecting on twelve stories from Benedict's life, anecdotes that give us glimpses into his soul. More than that, she draws from these stories daily thoughts for the development of our own spiritual lives in this day and age.
Joan Chittister, OSB, is a Benedictine sister and international lecturer who has been a leading voice in spirituality for more than thirty years. She has authored over forty books, most recently Uncommon Gratitude and The Monastery of the Heart, part of a program she is helping to develop to enable lay groups to live Benedictine spirituality in a contemporary way.
Table of Contents:
The radical Christian life: an exercise in spiritual imagination --
January. The mending of a tray: a call to good work --
February. Scholastica and Benedict: a call to conversion of heart --
March. Cave and Romanus: a call to silence and sacred leisure --
April. Poisoning of wine: a call to purity of heart --
May. Placid and Maurus and the movement of monastery: a call to community --
June. Near drowning of Placid: a call to friendship --
July. Founding of Monte Cassino: a call to prophesy --
August. Totila the Goth: a call to humility --
September. Agapitus and vials of oil: a call to stewardship --
October. Goth and poor man: a call to peace and nonviolence --
November. Child raised from the dead: a call to justice and compassion --
December. World in a ray of light: a call to contemplative vision.
FY2017 /
Description: In this book, The Radical Christian Life: A Year with Saint Benedict, Joan Chittister encourages us to look at that question. In an introductory essay she examines how the insights and values of the sixth-century Visionary Saint Benedict can illuminate today's search for a meaningful life. Then she leads us through the year, reflecting on twelve stories from Benedict's life, anecdotes that give us glimpses into his soul. More than that, she draws from these stories daily thoughts for the development of our own spiritual lives in this day and age.
Joan Chittister, OSB, is a Benedictine sister and international lecturer who has been a leading voice in spirituality for more than thirty years. She has authored over forty books, most recently Uncommon Gratitude and The Monastery of the Heart, part of a program she is helping to develop to enable lay groups to live Benedictine spirituality in a contemporary way.
Table of Contents:
The radical Christian life: an exercise in spiritual imagination --
January. The mending of a tray: a call to good work --
February. Scholastica and Benedict: a call to conversion of heart --
March. Cave and Romanus: a call to silence and sacred leisure --
April. Poisoning of wine: a call to purity of heart --
May. Placid and Maurus and the movement of monastery: a call to community --
June. Near drowning of Placid: a call to friendship --
July. Founding of Monte Cassino: a call to prophesy --
August. Totila the Goth: a call to humility --
September. Agapitus and vials of oil: a call to stewardship --
October. Goth and poor man: a call to peace and nonviolence --
November. Child raised from the dead: a call to justice and compassion --
December. World in a ray of light: a call to contemplative vision.
FY2017 /
Physical description
xxv, 129 p.; 21 cm
Description
Very little in this world stays fresh and life-giving for 1,500 years. But when that happens we should ask ourselves why and what that had to do with us. In this book, The Radical Christian Life: A Year with Saint Benedict, Joan Chittister encourages us to look at that question. In an introductory essay she examines how the insights and values of the sixth-century Visionary Saint Benedict can illuminate today's search for a meaningful life. Then she leads us through the year, reflecting on twelve stories from Benedict's life, anecdotes that give us glimpses into his soul. More than that, she draws from these stories daily thoughts for the development of our own spiritual lives in this day and age.
Language
Original language
English