VI. READING LIST FOR OBLATES

AAP ---Richardton, ND: Assumption Abbey Press
AH ---New York: Alba House
AMP ---Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press
BMH ---Schuyler, NE: BMH Publications
CP ---Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications
CPC ---New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company
DB ---Denville, NJ: Dimension Books
H&R ---San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers
IB ---Garden City, NY: Image Books
LP ---Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press
MGB ---Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press (Michael Glazier Books)
PB ---Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press (Pueblo Books)
PP ---Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press
SB ---Petersham, MA: St. Bede's Publications
TP ---Springfield, IL: Templegate Publishers

A. Books Specifically on the Rule and Benedictine Values

Casey, Michael, O.C.S.O., The Undivided Heart: The Western Monastic Approach to Contemplation (SB, 1994)

Chittister, Joan, O.S.B., Living the Rule Today: A Series of Conferences on the Rule of Benedict (Erie, PA: Benet Press, 1982)
__ , Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St .Benedict Today (H&R, 1990)
__ , The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages (CPC, 1992)

Colombas, Garcia M., Reading God: "lectio divina", trans., Gregory J. Roettger, O.S.B. (BMH, 1993)

Cummings, Charles, O.C.S.O., Monastic Practices (CP, 1986)

de Vogüé, Adalbert, O.S.B., The Rule of Saint Benedict: A Doctrinal and Spiritual Commentary, trans., John Baptist Hasbrouck, O.S.B. (CP, 1983)

de Waal, Esther, Living with Contradiction: Reflections on the Rule of St. Benedict (H&R, 1989)
__ , Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict (LP, 1984)

Dean, Eric, Saint Benedict for the Laity (LP, 1989)

Ellspermann, Gerard, O.S.B., Daily Readings & Meditations on the Holy Rule of St. Benedict (in 4 vols.) (St. Meinrad, IN: St. Meinrad Archabbey, 1982)

Grün, Anselm, O.S.B., The Challenge of Silence, trans., Gregory J. Roettger, O.S.B. (BMH, 1993)

Grün, Anselm, O.S.B., & Meinrad Dufner, O.S.B., Health as a Spiritual Task, trans., Gregory J. Roettger, O.S.B. (BMH, 1993)

Hall, Thelma, R.C., Too Deep for Words: Rediscovering Lectio Divina (PP, 1988)

Hume, Basil, O.S.B., Searching for God (PP, 1977)

Kardong, Terrence, O.S.B., Asking Benedict: A Study Program on the Rule of St. Benedict for Classes and Private Use (AAP, 1992)
__ , The Benedictines (MGB, 1988)
__ , Commentaries on Benedict's Rule (AAP, 1986)
__ , Together Unto Life Everlasting: An Introduction to the Rule of Benedict (AAP, 1984)

Leckey, Dolores R., The Ordinary Way: A Family Spirituality (CPC, 1982)

Mork, Wulstan, O.S.B., The Benedictine Way (SB, 1987)

Morris, Dom Augustine, Oblates: Life with St. Benedict (Newbury, Berkshire, England: Elmore Abbey, 1992)

Novena to St. Benedict (LP, 1987)

Parry, David, O.S.B., Households of God: The Rule of St. Benedict with Explanations for Monks and Lay-people Today (CP, 1980)

Pennington, M. Basil, O.C.S.O., Light from the Cloister (PP, 1991)

Rees, Daniel, O.S.B., et. al., Consider Your Call: A Theology of Monastic Life Today (London: SPCK, 1978)

Ruppert, Fidelis, O.S.B., and Anselm Grün, O.S.B., Christ in the Brother: According to the Rule of St. Benedict and in Everyday Life, trans., Gregory J. Roettger, O.S.B. (BMH, 1992)

St. Benedict's Rule for Monasteries, trans., Leonard J. Doyle (LP, 1948)

Stead, Julian, O.S.B., Saint Benedict: A Rule for Beginners (New Rochelle, NY: New City Press, 1993)

Taylor, Brian, Spirituality for Everyday Living: An Adaptation of the Rule of St. Benedict (LP, 1989)

Tvedten, Benet, O.S.B., A Share in the Kingdom: The Rule of St. Benedict for Oblates (LP, 1989)

Vest, Norvene (Oblate), No Moment Too Small: Rhythms of Silence, Prayer, and Holy Reading (CP & Boston: Cowley Publications, 1994)
__ , Preferring Christ: A Devotional Commentary and Workbook on the Rule of St. Benedict (Trabuco Canyon, CA: Source Books CA, 1990)

Wathen, Ambrose G., O.S.B., Silence: The Meaning of Silence in the Rule of St. Benedict (CP, 1973)

B. Other Books on Spirituality by Benedictine and Cistercian Authors

Aelred of Riveaulx, Spiritual Friendship, trans., Mary Eugenia Laher, S.S.N.D., (CP, Consortium Press, 1974)

Boulding, Maria, O.S.B., The Coming of God (LP, 1986)
__ , Gateway to Hope: An Exploration of Failure (SB, 1985)
__ , Prayer: Our Journey Home (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Books, 1979)
__ , (ed.), A Touch of God: Eight Monastic Journeys (SB, 1982)

Butler, Basil C., O.S.B., Prayer: An Adventure in Living (MGB, 1983)

Chautard, Jean-Baptiste, O.C.S.O., The Soul of the Apostolate, trans., Thomas Merton (IB, 1961)

Cummings, Charles, O.C.S.O, The Mystery of the Ordinary (H&R, 1982)

Drijvers, Pius, O.C.S.O., The Psalms: Their Structure and Meaning (N.Y.: Herder & Herder, 1965)

Gruber, Mark, O.S.B., Wounded by Love: Intimations of an Outpouring Heart (Latrobe, PA: St. Vincent Archabbey, 1993)

Hudleston, Roger, O.S.B., ed., The Spiritual Letters of Dom John Chapman, O.S.B. (London: Sheed & Ward, 1954)

Keating, Thomas, O.C.S.O., Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation (Rockport, MA: Element, Inc., 1992)

__ , The Kingdom of God Is Like ... (CPC, 1993)

Keating, Thomas, O.C.S.O., M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O., and Thomas E. Clarke, S.J., Finding Grace at the Center (SB, 1978)

Main, John, O.S.B., Letters from the Heart: Christian Monasticism and the Renewal of Community (CPC, 1985)

Merton, Thomas, O.C.S.O., Contemplation in a World of Action (IB, 1973)
__ , New Seeds of Contemplation (Norfolk, CN: New Directions, 1962)
__ , The Sign of Jonas (N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953)

Moore, Thomas Verner, O.S.B., Prayer (Westminster, MD: The Newman Book Shop, 1945)

Pennington, M. Basil, O.C.S.O., Call to the Center: The Gospel's Invitation to Deeper Prayer (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1990)
__ , Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form (IB, 1982)
__ , Challenges in Prayer (MGB, 1982)
__ , Daily We Touch Him: Practical Religious Experiences (IB, 1979)
__ , The Way Back: An Introduction to Centering Prayer (PP, 1989)

Pollard, Miriam, O.C.S.O., The Laughter of God: At Ease with Prayer (MGB, 1986)
__ , The Listening God (MGB, 1989)

Steindl-Rast, David, O.S.B., Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Its Fullness (PP, 1984)
__ , A Listening Heart: The Art of Contemplative Living (CPC, 1984)

Stramara, Daniel, F., O.S.B., Driven by the Spirit: The Life of St. Frances of Rome (Pecos, NM: Dove Publications, 1992)

Weakland, Archbishop Rembert G., O.S.B., All God's People: Catholic Identity after the Second Vatican Council (PP, 1985)

Wiederkehr, Macrina, O.S.B., A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary (H&R, 1988)

C. Other Books of Value for Spiritual Reading

Anderson, Bernhard W., Out of the Depths: The Psalms Speak to Us Today (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1974)

Arts, Herwig, S.J., God, the Christian, and Human Suffering, trans., Helen Rolfson, O.S.F. (LP, 1993)

Au, Wilkie, S.J., By Way of the Heart: Toward a Holistic Christian Spirituality (PP, 1989)

Bloom, Anthony, Beginning to Pray (PP, 1970)
__ , Living Prayer (TP, 1966)

Bondi, Roberta C. (Oblate), To Pray & to Love: Conversations on Prayer with the Early Church (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991)

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Life Together, trans., John W. Doberstein (H&R, 1954)
__ , Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible, trans., James H. Burtness (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1970)

Boros, Ladislaus, S.J., In Time of Temptation, trans., Simon & Erika Young (N.Y.: Herder & Herder, 1968)

Burrows, Ruth, Ascent to Love: The Spiritual Teaching of St. John of the Cross (DB, 1987)

Caretto, Carlo, The Desert in the City, trans., Barbara Wall (N.Y.: Collins, 1979)

Cassian, John, John Cassian - Conferences, trans., Colm Luibheid (PP, 1985)

Catoir, John T., Enjoy the Lord: A Path to Contemplation (AH, 1988)
__ , God Delights in You: An Introduction to Gospel Spirituality (N.Y.: The Christophers, 1990)

Chesto, Kathleen O'Connell, Risking Hope: Fragile Faith in the Healing Process (Kansas City, MO: Sheed & Ward, 1990)

Clarke, Bill, S.J., Enough Room for Joy: Jean Vanier's L'Arche: A Message for Our Time (PP, 1974)

Colliander, Tito, Way of the Ascetics, trans., Katharine Ferre (H&R, 1960)

Cooper, Austin, O.M.I., The Cloud: Reflections on Selected Texts (AH, 1989)

Dalrymple, John, Simple Prayer (MGB, 1984)

Daly, Gabriel, O.S.A., Asking the Father: A Study of the Prayer of Petition (MGB, 1982)

De Blassie, Paul, III, Deep Prayer: Healing for the Hurting Soul (CPC, 1990)

de Caussade, Jean-Pierre, S.J., Abandonment to Divine Providence, trans., John Beevers (IB, 1975)

Doherty, Catherine de Hueck, The Gospel without Compromise (AMP, 1976)
__ , Poustinia: Christian Spirituality of the East for Western Man (AMP, 1975)

Donders, Joseph G., Empowering Hope: Thoughts to Brighten Your Day (Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1985)

__ , Jesus, the Stranger: Reflections on the Gospels (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1978)

Dreyer, Elizabeth, Manifestations of Grace (MGB, 1990)

Durka, Gloria, Praying with Julian of Norwich (Winona, MN: Saint Mary's Press, 1989)

Easwaran, Eknath, Love Never Faileth: The Inspiration of St. Francis, St. Augustine, St. Paul & Mother Teresa (Pataluma, CA: Nilgiri Press, 1984)

Egan, Harvey D., S.J., An Anthology of Christian Mysticism (PB, 1991)
__ , Christian Mysticism: the Future of a Tradition (PB, 1984)

Evely, Louis, Our Prayer (N.Y.: Herder and Herder, Inc., 1970)
__ , Suffering: Reflections on the Mystery of Human Pain and Suffering (IB, 1974)
__ , We Dare to Say Our Father (N.Y.: Herder and Herder, 1965)

Farrell, Edward, Free to Be Nothing (MGB, 1989)

Fischer, Jude (Oblate), Be Always Little: Christian Fables for Young and Old (Combermere, ON, Canada: Madonna House Publications, 1991)

Forest, Jim, Making Friends of Enemies: Reflections on the Teachings of Jesus (CPC, 1988)

Francis de Sales, Saint, Introduction to the Devout Life, trans., John K. Ryan (IB, 1966)

Green, Thomas H., S.J., Darkness in the Marketplace: The Christian at Prayer in the World (AMP, 1981)
__ , Opening to God: A Guide to Prayer (AMP, 1978)
__ , Weeds among the Wheat: Discernment: Where Prayer and Action Meet (AMP, 1984)
__ , When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings (AMP, 1979)

Gregory the Great, Pope Saint, Pastoral Care, trans., Henry Davis, S.J. (Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1950)

Groeschel, Benedict, C.F.R., Listening at Prayer (PP, 1984)
__ , The Reform of Renewal (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1990)

Guardini, Romano, The Life of Faith, trans., John Chapin (Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1961)

Gustin, Marilyn, Living the Liturgy: The Mass as Personal Spiritual Growth (Liguori, MO: Liguori Publications, 1993)

Hardy, Richard P., Search for Nothing: The Life of John of the Cross (CPC, 1982)

Hassel, David J., S.J., Radical Prayer: Creating a Welcome for God, Ourselves, People, and the World (PP, 1983)

Hauser, Richard J., S.J., Finding God in Troubled Times: The Holy Spirit and Suffering (PP, 1994)

Hinnebusch, Paul, O.P., Community in the Lord (AMP, 1975)
__ , Dynamic Contemplation: Inner Life for Modern Man (N.Y.: Sheed and Ward, Inc., 1970)
__ , Friendship in the Lord (AMP, 1974)

Hurnard, Hannah, Hinds' Feet on High Places (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1985)

John XXIII, Pope, Journal of a Soul, trans., Dorothy White (N.Y.: Signet Books, 1965)

Johnston, William, S.J., ed., The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling (IB, 1973)

Lawrence, Brother, The Practice of the Presence of God (White Plains, NY: Peter Pauper Press, Inc., 1963)

Lewis, C.S., The Four Loves (San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1960)
__ , Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964)
__ , The Screwtape Letters (N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1961)

Lin, Matthew, S.J., & Dennis Linn, S.J., Healing Life's Hurts: Healing Memories through Five Stages of Forgiveness (PP, 1978)

Llewelyn, Robert, Love Bade Me Welcome (London: Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd, 1984)

Luti, J. Mary, Teresa of Avila's Way (MGB, 1991)

Maloney, George, S.J., Communion of Saints (Hauppage, NY: Living Flame Press, 1988)
__ , In Jesus We Trust (AMP, 1990)
__ , Jesus, Set Me Free!: Inner Freedom through Contemplation (DB, 1977)
__ , Prayer of the Heart (AMP, 1981)

Manning, Brennan, T.O.R., The Gentle Revolutionaries: Breaking through to Christian Maturity (DB, 1976)
__ , A Stranger to Self-Hatred: A Glimpse of Jesus (DB, 1982)

May, Gerald, G., M.D., Addiction and Grace (H&R, 1988)

McNamara, William, O.C.D., The Art of Being Human (Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Company, 1962)
__ , Mystical Passion: Spirtuality for a Bored Society (PP, 1977)

McNeil, Brian, Christ in the Psalms (Dublin: Veritas Publications, 1980)

McNeill, Donald P., Douglas A. Morrison, & Henri J.M. Nouwen, Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1982)

Morrison, Douglas A., & Christopher P. Witt, C.S.P., From Loneliness to Love (PP, 1989)

Muto, Susan Annette, John of the Cross for Today: The Ascent (AMP, 1991)
__ , Meditation in Motion (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1986)

Nouwen, Henri J.M., S.J., The Genessee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976)
__ , Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World (CPC, 1993)
__ , Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring (N.Y.: HarperCollins, 1994)
__ , The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry (N.Y.: Seabury Press, 1981)

O'Connor, Patricia, In Search of Therese (MGB, 1987)

Paulsell, William O., Letters from a Hermit: With Letters from Matthew Kelty, O.C.S.O. (TP, 1978)

Peck, M. Scott, The Different Drum: Community-Making and Peace (N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, 1987)

Pelphrey, Brant, Julian of Norwich: Christ, Our Mother (MGB, 1989)

Quoist, Michel, The Breath of Love, trans., N.D. Smith (CPC, 1987)
__ , The Meaning of Success, trans., Donald P. Gray (Notre Dame, IN: Fides, 1963)
__ , New Prayers, trans., Elizabeth Lovatt-Dolan (CPC, 1990)
__ , Prayers, trans., Agnes M. Forsythe & Anne Marie de Commaille (N.Y.: Sheed and Ward, 1963)

Rahner, Karl, S.J., Encounters with Silence, trans., James M. Demske, S.J. (Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1960)
__ , Mary, Mother of the Lord: Theological Meditations (N.Y.: Herder & Herder, 1963)
__ , On Prayer (LP, 1993)

Rupp, Joyce, O.S.M., Praying Our Goodbyes (AMP, 1988)

Samra, Cal, The Joyful Christ: The Healing Power of Humor (H&R, 1986)

Sanford, John A., Ministry Burnout (PP, 1982)

Savary, Louis M., & Patricia H. Berne, Kything: The Art of Spiritual Presence (PP, 1988)

Scanlan, Michael, T.O.R., with James Manney, Let the Fire Fall (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Books, 1986)

Shannon, William H., Seeking the Face of God (CPC, 1988)

Sinetar, Marsha, Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics: Lifestyles for Self-Discovery (PP, 1986)

Teresa of Avila, Saint, Book of the Foundations, trans. & ed. E. Allison Peers, Vol. 3 (N.Y.: Sheed & Ward, 1946)
__ , The Interior Castle, trans., Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D., & Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D. (PP, 1979)
__ , The Way of Perfection, trans., a Benedictine of Stanbrook Abbey (London: Burns & Oates, 1961)

Teresa of Calcutta, Mother, Total Surrender, ed., Br. Angelo Devananda (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 1985)

Tournier, Paul, A Listening Ear: Reflections on Christian Caring, trans., Edwin Hudson (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1987)

Tugwell, Simon, O.P., Ways of Imperfection: An Exploration of Christian Spirituality (TP, 1985)

Underhill, Evelyn, The Ways of the Spirit, ed., Grace Adolphsen Brame (CPC, 1990)

Valles, Carlos, S.J., The Art of Choosing: Working through Daily Decisions and Discerning Our Path in Life (IB, 1989)
__ , Mastering Sadhana: On Retreat with Anthony de Mello (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1988)

Vanier, Jean, Be Not Afraid: Community & Growth: Our Pilgrimage Together (PP, 1979)

van Kaam, Adrian, C.S.Sp., On Being Involved: The Rhythm of Involvement in Christian Life (DB, 1970)
__ , Spirituality and the Gentle Life (DB, 1974)
__ , The Woman at the Well (DB, 1976)

van Kaam, Adrian, and Susan Muto, Am I Living a Spiritual Life?: Questions and Answers on Formative Spirituality (DB, 1974)

Ward, Barbara, S.L.G., trans., The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (CP, 1975)

The Way of a Pilgrim & The Pilgrim Continues His Way, trans., Helen Bacovin (IB, 1978)

Wicks, Robert J., Living Simply in an Anxious World: An Invitation to Perspective (PP, 1988)

D. Historical and Literary Books on the Rule, St. Benedict, Benedictine Life, and St. Vincent Archabbey

Barry, Coleman J., O.S.B., Worship and Work: Saint John's Abbey and University, 1856- 1980 (LP, 1980)

Beckman, Peter, O.S.B., Kansas Monks: A History of St. Benedict's Abbey (Atchison, KS: Abbey Student Press, 1957)

Berthier, Rene, & Marie-Helene Sigaut, Saint Benedict and His Monks (with Cartoon Drawings), trans., Cronan R. Tyms, O.S.B. (Campomorone, Italy: Univers Media, 1983)

Fry, Timothy, O.S.B., ed., RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict 1980: In Latin and English with Notes (LP, 1981)

Gregory the Great, Pope Saint, Life and Miracles of St. Benedict , trans., Odo J. Zimmerman, O.S.B., & Benedict R. Avery, O.S.B. (LP)
__ , The Life of St. Benedict, trans., Hilary Costello & Eoin de Bhaldraithe, commentary by Adalbert de Vogue, O.S.B. (SB, 1993)

Grün, Anselm, Benedict of Norcia, trans., Gregory J. Roettger, O.S.B. (BMH, 1992)

Guiver, George, C.R., Company of Voices: Daily Prayer and the People of God (PB, 1988)

Kline, Omer U., O.S.B., The Sportsman's Hall Parish, Later Named Saint Vincent, 1790- 1846 (Latrobe, PA: Saint Vincent Archabbey Press, 1990)

Leclerq, Jean, O.S.B., The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture, trans., Catherine Misrahi (N.Y.: Fordham University Press, 1961)

McCann, Justin, O.S.B., Saint Benedict (London: Sheed and Ward, 1986)

Oetgen, Jerome, An American Abbot: Boniface Wimmer, O.S.B. (1809-1887) (Latrobe, PA: The Archabbey Press, 1976)

Raymond, M., O.C.S.O., The Family That Overtook Christ (Boston, MA: The Daughters of St. Paul, 1986)

Rippinger, Joel, O.S.B., The Benedictine Order in the United States (LP, 1990)

Saint Vincent: A Benedictine Place, ed., Campion P. Gavaler, O.S.B. (Latrobe, PA: Saint Vincent Archabbey, 1995)

The Rule of the Master, trans., Luke Eberle, O.S.B. (CP, 1977)