Monastic Package

Blair Laird

Verbum seems to have different types of packages (Ordinate, Academic, etc). I believe the Orthodox package should have other packages as well. An Orthodox collection that branches out into monastic writings would be a really cool package.

Or perhaps a monastic package that includes Protestant, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, and Roman Catholics, etc would be really cool as well. 

David Wanat

Speaking as a Catholic, I find this an Interesting idea. I’d consider getting it if the price was manageable.

Simon’s Brother

Good suggestion Blair, I would consider it.

Blair Laird said:

Verbum seems to have different types of packages (Ordinate, Academic, etc). I believe the Orthodox package should have other packages as well. An Orthodox collection that branches out into monastic writings would be a really cool package.

Or perhaps a monastic package that includes Protestant, Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, and Roman Catholics, etc would be really cool as well. 

Rosie Perera

Good idea. Plenty of resources I could imagine being in such a package:

• The Life of Saint Benedict by Saint Gregory the Great
• The Holy Rule by Benedict of Nursia
• RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict in English with Notes by Timothy Fry
• Benedict’s Rule: A Translation and Commentary by Terrence G. Kardong
• A Life-Giving Way: A Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict by Esther de Waal
• The Rule of the Master by Luke Eberle
• Desiring Life: Benedict on Wisdom and the Good Life by Norvene Vest
• Saint Benedict on the Freeway: A Rule of Life for the 21st Century by Corinne Ware
• Benedictine Studies Collection (11 vols.)
• St. Basil the Great: A Study in Monasticism by W. K. Lowther Clarke
• Early Monastic Rules: The Rules of the Fathers and the Regula Orientalis (with Latin Edition) by Carmela Vircillo Franklin
• An Introduction to the Desert Fathers by Jason Byasee
• Desert Fathers and Mothers: Early Christian Wisdom Sayings Annotated & Explained by Christine Valters Paintner
• The Fathers of the Desert (2 vols.)
• Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers by John Wortley
• The Wisdom of the Desert by James O. Hannay
• The Sayings of the Fathers by Owen Chadwick
• Balance of the Heart: Desert Spirituality for Twenty-First-Century Christians by Louis Farag
• Saint Macarius the Spiritbearer: Coptic Texts Relating to Saint Macarius the Great by Macarius the Great & Tim Vivian
• The Jesus Prayer: A Gift From the Fathers by David Hester
• Being Truly Human: The Desert Way of Spiritual Formation by Mark Mah
• St. Basil the Great: A Study in Monasticism by David Carlson
• The Grail Psalms (2 vols.) by The Benedictine Monks of Conception Abbey
• Christian Monasticism from the Fourth to the Ninth Centuries by Gregory I. Smith
• Peter Damian: Letters 1–30 by Peter Damian
• Christian Monasticism in Egypt to the Close of the Fourth Century by W. H. Mackean
• Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola, Volume II by Paulinus of Nola & P. G. Walsh
• Monk Habits for Everyday People by Dennis L. Okholm
• Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision by Lawrence S. Cunningham
• New Monastic Library: Resources for Radical Discipleship (10 vols.)
• Inhabiting the Church: Biblical Wisdom for a New Monasticism by by Jon Stock, Tim Otto, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Christine D. Pohl
• Peace Be with You: Monastic Wisdom for a Terror-Filled World by David Carlson
• A Selected Bibliography of Monastic and Related Topics
• Monastic Prisons and Torture Chambers: Crime and Punishment in Central European Monasteries, 1600-1800 by Ulrich L. Lehner
• Evagrius Ponticus: Ad Monachos by Evagrius Ponticus
• The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality by Greg Peters
• Letters of St. Paulinus of Nola, Volume I by Paulinus of Nola
• Dangerous Passions, Deadly Sins: Learning from the Psychology of Ancient Monks by Dennis L. Okholm
• The Monks of Mount Athos: A Western Monk’s Extraordinary Spiritual Journey on Eastern Holy Ground by M. Basil Pennington
• Palladius: The Lausiac History by Palladius & Robert T. Meyer
• Pseudo-Macarius: The Fifty Spiritual Homilies and the Great Letter by Pseudo-Macarius
• Thomas Merton Collection (7 vols.)

I'm sure there are more. That was just from a quick search for monastic, desert fathers, monks, merton

Thanks for bringing up the topic. I've acquired some books I was missing for my own library!