3 Benedictine book recommendations...(please)

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Rules (if you’ll pardon the expression 😃 ):
  1. It has to be 3 recommendations
  2. One of the recommendations can NOT be the Rule (have that)
  3. Only 1 Merton book allowed (and it can NOT be 7 Story Mountain) (ditto)
Have at it.👍

PS I would really like a recommendation for a book that discusses the Benedictine charisms (hospitality, stability, etc)
 
I posted my 3 recommendations in the Benedictine group forums, but I’ll repeat one of them here since it might be what you’re looking for:

Essential Monastic Wisdom; Writings on the Contemplative Life, by Fr. Hugh Feiss, O.S.B., 1999. This one touches on many of those important topics you mentioned. Fr. Hugh writes a brief introduction for each topic, and then selects a number of pertinent quotations from a wide variety of monastic sources, similar to the Apothegmata Patrum, the sayings of the desert fathers.
 
“A Monastic Year: Reflections from a Monastery” by Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette

Brother Victor is known for his excellent cooking books like, “From a Monastery Kitchen: The Classic Natural Foods Cookbook.”

FYI, Thomas Merton was not a Benedictine, but a Trappist.

Jim
 
JimR-OCDS said:
FYI, Thomas Merton was not a Benedictine, but a Trappist.
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Trappists also follow the Rule of St. Benedict, so they’re part of the extended family.

A book I am thoroughly enjoying right now is called Seventy-Four Tools for Good Living: Reflections on the Fourth Chapter of Benedict’s Rule by Michael Casey, another Trappist. The book takes each line of chapter 4 and expands it into several pages of reflection. I reflect on one section each week and it is a huge boon to my spiritual life.
 
Jim, I’m not sure what your point is.

It really is OK if a Benedictine Oblate reads a book written by a Trappist.
 
JimR-OCDS said:
“A Monastic Year: Reflections from a Monastery” by Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette

Brother Victor is known for his excellent cooking books like, “From a Monastery Kitchen: The Classic Natural Foods Cookbook.”

FYI, Thomas Merton was not a Benedictine, but a Trappist.

Jim
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Trappists are Benedictines, right?:confused::o

EDIT: already answered
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
Trappists also follow the Rule of St. Benedict, so they’re part of the extended family.

A book I am thoroughly enjoying right now is called Seventy-Four Tools for Good Living: Reflections on the Fourth Chapter of Benedict’s Rule by Michael Casey, another Trappist. The book takes each line of chapter 4 and expands it into several pages of reflection. I reflect on one section each week and it is a huge boon to my spiritual life.
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I love Casey. This book was one that I was seriously considering. Thank you.👍

He posts fairly regularly HERE
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
Jim, I’m not sure what your point is.

It really is OK if a Benedictine Oblate reads a book written by a Trappist.
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Of course, it’s OK to read Trappist writings, but the OP asked for Benedictine writings.

The point I’m making is that a Trappist is not a Benedictine, despite following the Rule of St Benedict.

Trappist follow more strictly the rule, but also live the life of a Cistercian.

See the link I provided, the person there was in a Trappist monastery and explains the difference between the two orders.

Jim
 
The Cistercians are part of the Benedictine Confederation (at least in the USA), though (IIRC)
 
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