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New! Available September 2013The ArT of LeAdershipNotker Wolf and Enrica Rosanna

Without question, managing people effectively requires strong leadership. What exactly characterizes good leadership qualities? Are these leadership qualities easily teachable? And what are the significant gender differences between masculine and feminine leadership styles? Abbot Primate Notker Wolf and Sister Enrica Rosanna have each held significant leadership positions, and based on their real-world experience, they clearly examine and answer these questions. Together they establish common mistakes that most people make and explain what it truly takes to become an effective leader in business, politics, school, and family life. This is a book that is beneficial to everyone, even if the reader is not in a leadership role.978-0-8146-3810-1 Paperback, 160 pp., 5 3⁄8 x 8 1⁄4, $16.95e 978-0-8146-3835-4 eBook, $14.99Rights: World, English only

From Cistercian Publications New! Available September 2013in The VALLey of WormWoodCistercian Blessed and Saints of the Golden AgeThomas Merton Edited with an introduction by Patrick Hart Foreword by Brian Patrick McGuire

Shortly after entering the monastic life in December 1941, a relatively unknown Trappist monk called Frater Louis—who would later be known to the world by his given name, Thomas Merton—began to pen biographical sketches of early Cistercian blessed and saints. These were initially collected, printed, and bound inexpensively, with no mention of the author, by the Abbey of Gethsemani. They are now published here for a wide audience for the first time. This work of the very young Merton perhaps takes on added significance when one considers the writing that lay just ahead of him at the time. In 1948, his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, was published and soon became an unexpected national bestseller. This long-awaited publication of In the Valley of Wormwood offers a window into Merton’s thinking and his spiritual life just a few years before his phenomenal autobiography would see the light of day.CS233P 978-0-87907-133-2 Paperback, 448 pp., 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2, $39.95e CS233E 978-0-87907-758-7 eBook, $35.99

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ThoughTs mATTerDiscovering the Spiritual Journey978-0-8146-3525-4 Paperback, 200 pp., 5 x 7, $18.95e 978-0-8146-3492-9 eBook, $14.99

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discernmenT mATTersListening with the Ear of the HeartAfter fifty years of monastic life, prayer, and spiritual direction, Mary Margaret Funk knows what it means to listen to the Holy Spirit with the ear of one’s heart. In Discernment Matters, she shares what she has learned. A resource for those who want to learn and practice discernment as taught by the early monastic tradition, it includes an accessible summary of teachings about discernment from monastic traditions of late antiquity, consideration of important tools for making decisions today, and practical examples from the lives of St. Benedict and St. Patrick, as well as from the experience of monastics today. 978-0-8146-3469-1 Paperback, 208 pp., 5 x 7, $18.95e 978-0-8146-3494-3 eBook, $14.99

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“The Girl Got Up is a powerful and honest book that weaves together spiritual journey and scriptural reflection. Rachel Srubas writes luminous and compelling prose. Once you begin reading, this book is very difficult to put down.”

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reAching for godThe Benedictine Oblate Way of LifeRoberta Werner, OSB

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pLeAding, cursing, prAisingConversing with God through the PsalmsIrene Nowell, OSB

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Reaching for God is a compendium of Benedictine life and prayer for the layperson. It brings together in one volume the essence of Benedictine spirituality—its history, its relevance through the ages and in the present, and a summary of the most fundamental gifts and values it offers for living a meaningful life. Werner offers guidance and examples of prayer to enrich any spiritual life.

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cAVe, refecTory, roAdMonastic Rhythms for Contemporary LivingIan Adams

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“Ian Adams’ excellent book takes three elements of the historic monastic tradition and recasts them for the benefit both of individuals seeking a deeper walk with God and for the many emerging new monastic communities. Read chapter by chapter, it would provide excellent material for a series of Third Order small-group meetings.’”

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The roAd To eTernAL LifeReflections on the Prologue of Benedict’s RuleMichael Casey, OCSO

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mAVerick mArkThe Untamed First GospelBonnie B. Thurston

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“Cistercian Michael Casey brings authority to his reflections on the Prologue on the Rule of Benedict because of intellectual study. But his words transmit clarity and depth because of his many years of lived experience.”

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“In Maverick Mark, the reader encounters not only a tightly focused but a downright urgent guide through the shortest gospel text. This is a book that can be given a first reading in a few hours but one its readers will not quickly forget.”

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BernArd of cLAirVAux Sermons for Lent and the Easter SeasonEdited by John Leinenweber and Mark Scott, OCSOForeword by Wim Verbaal

This volume contains Saint Bernard’s sermons

for the liturgical seasons of Lent and Easter. Included are sermons for the Purification, Septuagesima, the feast of Saint Benedict, and the feast of the Annunciation, all of which are interpreted by Bernard in light of the paschal mystery.

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sAinT BernArd’s Three-course BAnqueTHumility, Charity, and Contemplation in the De GradibusBernard Bonowitz, OCSO

“The wisdom of St. Bernard has found an outstanding new voice in the

meditations contained in this book. The author’s wonderfully personal style transforms the reader from a mere listener to an active participant in a grace-filled dialogue. The experience of monastic life appears here in all of its beauty, simplicity, and truth.”

Fr. Maximos of Simonopetra (Mt. Athos)

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BernArd of cLAirVAuxTheologian of the CrossAnthony N. S. Lane

This book offers a complete study of the doctrine of the cross in the writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. until now, this theologically rich topic has not received the attention it calls for. Anthony

Lane analyzes and expounds the doctrine of the cross based on the nearly seven hundred references to the cross in Bernard’s writings.

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LighT in The shoe shopA Cobbler’s ContemplationsAgnes Day, OCSO

“This book is decidedly not just one more item in the picturesque genre of the ‘nun’s story.’ Rather, for all its slenderness, the volume bears a strong witness to the fact that a human

life that stakes its all on loving will gradually become transfused with light.”

From the foreword by Simeon Leiva, oCSo

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