Five Letters on Monastic Life

De: Saint Jerome

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

“My fondness for good books was my salvation. Reading the Letters of St. Jerome encouraged me so much that I decided to tell my father about my decision to take the habit,” writes St. Teresa of Avila. She is but one of the many people who in the course of time have found consolation and guidance for life in St. Jerome's letters on the monastic life. Indeed, he is also one of the most important authors in the history of monasticism, situated between the Desert Fathers, John Cassian, and St. Augustine, and well before St. Benedict. These five letters of “St. Jerome, God’s Grouch” (Thomas Merton), with a brief introduction and presentations of each text, represent the best of his teaching, teaching still applicable today because it is founded on the Holy Scriptures.