Monastic Practices (Volume 47) (Monastic Wisdom Series)

Cummings OCSO, Charles

ISBN 10: 0879070501 / ISBN 13: 9780879070502

Published by Liturgical Press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Monastic Practices (Volume 47) (Monastic Wisdom Series)
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879070501
• ISBN 13: 9780879070502
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

For three decades, Monastic Practices has been a valued resource for English-speaking aspirants to monastic life. In this revised edition, updated and expanded, Charles Cummings, OCSO, explores the common practices of the monastic life in order to rediscover them as viable means of leading persons to a deeper encounter with God. How do monks and nuns occupy themselves throughout the day? Have they modernized their lifestyle or is it still cluttered with medieval customs? Could any of the monastic practices be of use to those outside the monastery? A certain wisdom is necessary to know how to use such practices and how to give oneself to them until they lead one to God.
After long monastic experience, Cummings shows us how the ordinary things we do constitute our path to God. In the art of living life, he argues, we are always beginners, searching for God through our concrete circumstances and actions.

About the Author

Charles Cummings (1940-2020), was a Trappist-Cistercian monk and priest of Holy Trinity Abbey, Huntsville, Utah. He grew up in northern Minnesota and joined the monastery in 1960. He had a master’s degree in formative spirituality and had been engaged in writing, editing, teaching, counseling, chaplain ministry, and monastic interreligious dialogue for most of his monastic life.