Seventy-Four Tools for Good Living: Reflections on the Fourth Chapter of Benedictâ s Rule

Casey OCSO, Michael

ISBN 10: 0814637205 / ISBN 13: 9780814637203

Editore: Liturgical Press, 2014

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Riassunto:

There is more in Benedict’s Rule than meets the eye. Based on the rules of life of John Cassian and Saint Basil, Benedict invites us to go further back to the scriptural basis of all Christian and monastic living and pursue our spiritual journey by the guidance of the Gospel.

This book of reflections on the tools for good living is intended to be read very slowly, one section at a time. In addition to communicating reflections on each verse of chapter 4, Casey invites readers to:

·         continue the process of reflection for themselves

·         apply what is written to their own lives

·         draw on their own wisdom and insight

·         and, ultimately, broaden their experience of monastic spirituality

Recensione: This book is not an exegetical study; one goes elsewhere for such. Rather this is a wisdom text, exploring each tool in a search to comprehend these pithy sayings for good living. . . . It is his own lived experience that brightens up the text. Casey's years of cenobitic living, coupled with his perceptive eye and peppered wit give life to the seventy-four tools. --Timothy Joyce, OSB, Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, MA, American Benedictine Review

Michael Casey brings a deep lived knowledge of the monastic tradition to this splendid set of reflections on Benedict's Rule. He manages to marry faith commitment to pastoral common sense in such a manner that monks and laity as well can find answers to that request made to the old desert dwellers: Give me a good word. Casey, in fact, gives us many good words. --Lawrence S. Cunningham, John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology (Emeritus), The University of Notre Dame

Seventy-Four Tools for Good Living is Michael Casey's ingenious way of rendering the wisdom of St. Benedict for our times. As a master teacher, he weaves together sources from the monastic tradition and contemporary insights through these seventy-four tools. If this is not his best book, it is certainly his most readable and gracious offering to his students and readers. This is a book that comes from his personal lectio and living the monastic way of life in Australia. It is also a book I can use for lectio and living my monastic way of life here in Indiana. Lay contemplatives, especially oblates, will find this a cut above the books published in most bibliographies on monastic spirituality. This book matters! --Meg Funk, OSB, Our Lady of Grace Monastery

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Titolo: Seventy-Four Tools for Good Living: ...
Casa editrice: Liturgical Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good