Reading list

A Monastic Reading List

Companions for a deeper contemplative life.

Prior Daniel recommends these books for exploring monastic spirituality today.

From the monastery archive

Monastic Reading List for more in-depth understanding of it’s spirituality in today’s world. I suggest the following.

-Prior Daniel Manger,O.S.B.,Cam.

Perspectives On the Rule of St. Benedict , (Liturgical Press)

From The Tools Of Good Works To the Heart Of Humility by Sr. Aquinata Bockmann (Liturgical Press)

A Listening Community by Sr. Aquinata Bockmann (Liturgical Press)

Hildegard of Bingen , Solutions To 38 Questions (Liturgical Press)

St. Bernard’s 3 Course Banquet by Bernard Bonowitz (Cistercian Press)

The Historical Atlas of Eastern & Western Christian Monasticism by Juan Laboa (Liturgical Press)

The Privilage Of Love by Peter Damain Belisle, (Liturgical Press)

How To Inhabit Time by James K.A. Smith, ( BrazosPress)

The Practice of Spiritual Direction by William A. Barry & William J. Connolly (Harper One-Collins Publishing)

The Tears of Things:Prophetic wisdom for an age of outrage, by Fr. Richard Rohr,O.F.M.

My Battle Against Hitler: Faith, Truth, and defiance in the shadow of the Third Reich, by Dietrich Von Hildebrand