Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fello...

In about 679, Bede, a boy of seven, was presented by his family as an oblate to the monastery of ...

'Prayer is a journey, sometimes a combat.There are trials, purifications, passages.It is at o...

In the half century since its first publication in English, this small book has become a classic ...

Beatrice of Nazareth and the amazing group of nuns and beguines who lived and wrote, or were writ...

'Pray continually,' Scripture exhorts. 'Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus.' Striving to...

Descriptions of Pachomian monastic communities from a variety of ancient sources, including the L...

Three treatises by twelfth-century Cistercians, who reflect on the human person as the image of G...

Christians have been drawn to monastic life nearly as long as Christianity has existed.Dedicati...

Aelred entered the newly founded abbey of Rievaulx in 1133, after serving at the Scottish royal c...

Taking up Saint Bernard's unfinished sermon-commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1-5:10 in fo...

Monks and priests - male celibates - have for centuries described, expressed, and celebrated thei...