Let's Talk Benedictines?

[mantellata]

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Any author develops a reputation but whether it's good or bad, the person may surprise you from time to time. I guess it depends on whether you want to invest the time to find out if the book is worthwhile or not.
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Absolutely. Which is why I mentioned in my OP that I wasn't in a position to evaluate the book on its own merits.... which can most certainly have value despite an individual author's personal choices against the Magisterium.

Just commenting that I figure it is worthwhile to know her philosophical underpinnings. Not everyone is a discerning reader.

Which by the way has nothing to do [u]at all[/u] with being a good or bad Catholic. Just knowledge or lack of knowledge which is neither here nor there.


On another note - A [b]great[/b] Benedictine author I [u]can[/u] recommend would be Blessed Columba Marmion (1858-1923) I really enjoy his letters.


[b] Principal Works[/b]
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Thanks to Dom Raymond Thibaut, his secretary, the central teachings of Dom Marmion (delivered orally in French)[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba_Marmion#cite_note-99"][99][/url][/sup] were preserved in written form:[/size][/font][/color][list]
[*][i]Le Christ, vie de l'âme[/i] (1917)
[*][i]Le Christ dans ses Mystères[/i] (1919)
[*][i]Le Christ, idéal du moine[/i] (1922)
[*][i]Le Christ, idéal du prêtre[/i] (1951)
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These were translated into English respectively as follows:[/size][/font][/color][list]
[*][i]Christ, the Life of the Soul,[/i] English translation by "A Nun of Tyburn,"[sup][url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba_Marmion#cite_note-100"][100][/url][/sup] i.e., Mother Mary St. Thomas, 1922
[*][i]Christ in His Mysteries,[/i] English translation by Mother Mary St. Thomas, 1924
[*][i]Christ the Ideal of the Monk,[/i] English translation by Mother Mary St. Thomas, 1926
[*][i]Christ the Ideal of the Priest,[/i] English translation by Dom Matthew Dillon, 1958
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[b] [size=3][[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Columba_Marmion&action=edit&section=16"]edit[/url]][/size]Posthumous works published in English[/b]
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[*][i]Sponsa Verbi: The Virgin Consecrated to Christ,[/i] translated by Dom Francis Izard (London: Sands, 1925)
[*][i]Words of Life on the Margin of the Missal,[/i] edited by Dom Raymond Thibaut (St. Louis, Mo.: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herder_publishers"]B. Herder Book Co.[/url], 1939)
[*][i]Union with God According to the Letters of Direction of Dom Marmion,[/i] by Dom Raymond Thibaut (London: Sands & Co., 1949)
[*][i]Suffering with Christ: An Anthology of the Writings of Dom Columba Marmion,[/i] compiled by Dom Raymond Thibaut (Westminster, Md.: The Newman Press, 1952)
[*][i]The Trinity in Our Spiritual Life: An Anthology of the Writings of Dom Columba Marmion,[/i] compiled by Dom Raymond Thibaut (Westminster, Md.: The Newman Press, 1953)
[*][i]The English Letters of Abbot Marmion, 1858-1923[/i] (Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1962)
[*][i]Fire of Love: An Anthology of Abbot Marmion's Published Writings on the Holy Spirit,[/i] by Charles Dollen (St. Louis, Mo.: B. Herder Book Co.1964)
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[b] [size=3][[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Columba_Marmion&action=edit&section=17"]edit[/url]][/size]English translations currently in print[/b]
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[*][i]Christ, the Life of the Soul[/i]. A new translation by Alan Bancroft. Introduction by Dom Mark Tierney, O.S.B. (European Vice-Postulator of Marmion's Beatification Cause); Foreword by Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R. Published by Zaccheus Press (Bethesda, Md., 2005) ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780972598156"]ISBN 978-0-9725981-5-6[/url]) in North America, and by Gracewing (Leominster, UK, 2005) ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780852446560"]ISBN 978-0-85244-656-0[/url]) outside North America.
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[*][i]Christ in His Mysteries[/i]. A new translation by Alan Bancroft. Introduction by Aidan Nichols, O.P.; Foreword by Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R. Published by Zaccheus Press (Bethesda, Md., 2008) ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780972598194"]ISBN 978-0-9725981-9-4[/url]) in North America, and by Gracewing (Leominster, UK, Feb. 2010) ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780852447352"]ISBN 978-0-85244-735-2[/url]) outside North America. Both publishers' editions are available in Australasia.
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[*][i]Christ the Ideal of the Monk[/i]. Reprint of the Mother Mary St. Thomas translation. Published by Roman Catholic Books (Ridgefield, Conn., circa 2005) ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0974209813"]ISBN 0-9742098-1-3[/url]).
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[*][i]Christ the Ideal of the Priest[/i]. Reprint of the Dom Matthew Dillon translation, with adaptations made by Rev. David L. Toups, S.T.D. Published by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_Press"]Ignatius Press[/url] (San Francisco, 2005) ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781586170141"]ISBN 978-1-58617-014-1[/url]) in North America, and by Gracewing (Leominster, UK, 2006) ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780852446577"]ISBN 978-0-85244-657-7[/url]) in the United Kingdom.
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[*][i]Union with God: Letters of Spiritual Direction by Blessed Columba Marmion[/i]. Reprint of the Mother Mary St. Thomas translation, with an Introduction by Rev. David L. Toups, S.T.D. Published by Zaccheus Press (Bethesda, Md., 2006) ([url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780972598163"]ISBN 978-0-9725981-6-3[/url]).
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[*][i]Columba Marmion: Correspondance 1881–1923[/i]. Edited by Mark Tierney, R.-Ferdinand Poswick, and Nicolas Dayez. (Paris: François-Xavier de Guibert. 2008).
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[ACS67]

Oh mantellata! I LOVE Bl. Dom Columba Marmion! He is just wonderful. I consider him one of my spiritual directors. I can't say enough good about that man! [b][i]Christ, the Ideal of the Monk[/i][/b] is actually online!

[url="http://archive.org/details/ChristTheIdealOfTheMonk"]http://archive.org/details/ChristTheIdealOfTheMonk[/url]

It is such a great book! If anyone wants to learn about the Rule of St. Benedict, and Benedictine life in general, read this book!

[emmaberry101]

Blessed Dom Columba Marmion? Mother Francis loved him and quoted him often-and you know he must be special if a Franciscan says the word "Benedictine" in her conferences. Kidding, of course, but it seems that he would be a much better source for a quality Benedictine commentary than the previously mentioned source.

[ACS67]

Since this thread is about Benedictines I would like to take advantage of some of the knowledge that many PM'ers possess in regards to the various aspects of religious life and religious founders.

Has anyone heard of Marie Cronier? She was a Benedictine nun and founded the Monastery of St. Scholastica in Dourgne France around 1889. She had revelations of the Sacred Heart (as did Dom Muard who I also would love to read more about but I have found very little written about his life) and I am interested in reading those but I have not found that she ever actually wrote those revelations down and if she did I have not discovered the book that contains them. I thought of writing to the Monastery in Dourgne to find out if they perhaps have any of her writings. However, I thought I would try the "scholars" of PM first Any help/advise would be greatly appreciated.

[Spem in alium]

Just as a random thought/Benedict-filled moment:

A couple of years ago my grandparents gave me a decade Rosary they'd bought in Rome and had blessed. The beads weren't beads as such, but small medals which I'd never seen before. At the time I thought nothing of it, but when I came back from my trip overseas, I pulled out the Rosary again and realised that the medals were actually small St. Benedict medals :) I'd seen the medal countless times while away (and even began wearing one) that I recognised it instantly. 
I thought it was pretty cool! It's things like this that make me wonder what St. Benedict is trying to tell me. The last few months have been filled with him :)

[TIWW]

A great source for Benedictine life, and the different Associations and Federations is OSB.org.Both Men and Women's Communities belong to a Federation, which loosely is organized by where these members

were founded  ie  certain areas of Germany, or other parts of the world. My personal favorites are the Benedictine Nunsin Virginia Dale, Colorado, The Jamberoo Benedictines is Australia, the Petersham groups and Missionery Benedictines in Norflok, Nebraska.There are many active Monastic Communities listed geographically at the OSB.ORG site. Sister Joan Chittister has a great book :Comment on  the Rule of St Benedic as well as Terry Kardong, Michael Casey & Thomas Merton.The Rule of St Benedict is beautiful and simple and the model for many Monastic ways of life. You will learn a great deal about Benedictine life in the early works of  Father Thomas Merton, O Cist. Seeds if Contemplation, The Sign of Jonas for example.

 

Edited January 26, 2013 by TIWW

[savvy]

 

The monastic community of Jerusalem follows the rule of St. Benedict and of St. Basil. It's a collaboration of Western and Eastern monasticism.

 

 Sister Joan Chittister actually has some good stuff, most of which was written before she went crazy. We need to pray for her. 

[DameAgnes]

I'm not a fan of Sr. Joan Chittister's but her earlier commentaries on the Rule are very sound and insightful.

[Starets]

Dom Prosper Gueranger, founding abbot of the Solesmes congregation, wrote some very good books. One of them is Religious and Monastic Life explained, which originally was material he put together for his novices. I don't think it is in print anymore, but you should be able to get it from a library.

[EmilyAnn]

Dom Prosper Gueranger, founding abbot of the Solesmes congregation, wrote some very good books. One of them is Religious and Monastic Life explained, which originally was material he put together for his novices. I don't think it is in print anymore, but you should be able to get it from a library.

It is! St. Michael's Abbey have published a new translation, done by the Solesmes nuns of St. Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde (who are fantastic btw). You can find it here. I read it while I was on a live in with the nuns and it is such a fantastic book. 

He also wrote an excellent book on the Immaculate Conception which I have read, also available from St. Michael's. Dom Gueranger needs to be canonised. Heck, the man deserves to be a Doctor of the Church. 

Can you tell I love Dom Gueranger? :hehe: There is also another wonderful book called The Spirit of Solesmes, which includes writings from Dom Gueranger, Mere Cecile Bruyere and Dom Delatte, edited and arranged by the Novice Mistress of St. Cecilia's who is one of the coolest people I know. But anyway, I have read it and it is an amazing book. 

[John Paul]

Once I would live the daily schedule for an order for the day and didn't want to try a benedictine day but i ended up falling in love with the osb's.

[vee]

There is a show called This Side of Eden which follows the Benedictines at Westminster Abbey in Canada.  More about it here http://saltandlighttv.org/thissideofeden/

Im not a guy  nor much of a Bennie however I enjoyed the show when I saw it on ewtn recently. 

here is the Abbey's website as well

http://www.westminsterabbey.ca/index.html

 

 

[truthfinder]

There is a show called This Side of Eden which follows the Benedictines at Westminster Abbey in Canada.  More about it here http://saltandlighttv.org/thissideofeden/

Im not a guy  nor much of a Bennie however I enjoyed the show when I saw it on ewtn recently. 

here is the Abbey's website as well

http://www.westminsterabbey.ca/index.html

 

 

​They've had many young vocations in the last 10 years (I think at least six who have made final vows). I'm very fond of this community, they run the seminary for the archdiocese and in general have provided very good priests.  

[vee]

​They've had many young vocations in the last 10 years (I think at least six who have made final vows). I'm very fond of this community, they run the seminary for the archdiocese and in general have provided very good priests.  

​Excellent!  Perhaps some of the young men on here will consider them as well!  They can be driving the tractor in the next video