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A brutal ex-assassin soldier. A gentle monk. Both unprepared for each other. Their forbidden love—raw, cathartic and devastating. Ex-Command weapon Elias was trained to kill, not to feel. After a failed mission leaves him severely wounded, he finds refuge in a forgotten monastery tucked beyond Command’s reach. But mercy isn’t part of his programming. Brother Lorne—gentle, devout and disarmingly human—unravels everything he thought he knew about silence, obedience, and desire. This is not a love story. This is what comes after the fire. Sanctum is a dark M/M dystopian military man ...

Drawing on the records of national and regional archives as well as archaeological remains, James Clark explores the little-known lives of the last men and women who lived in England's monasteries before the Reformation. Clark challenges received wisdom, showing that buildings were not immediately demolished and Henry VIII's subjects were so attached to the religious houses that they kept fixtures and fittings as souvenirs. This rich, vivid history brings back into focus the prominent place of abbeys, priories, and friaries in the lives of the English people.

In a colonised and crumbling future solar system, humanity is struggling to survive the catastrophic loss of centuries of precious knowledge. The beings that caused this loss, the machine intelligences known as the Configurations, are spoken of with hatred and with fear. Have they left humanity to its own fate? Could they be buried still, deep in the infrastructure? Engage-Assault Li, a brash, young soldier, is hired as a bodyguard for Qira, an academic with knowledge of the infrastructure. Together they travel into the wild lands of Titan, to a remote monastery where a mysterious, ...

Christmas Eve, 1176. Brother Maurice, monk of Fairmore Abbey, awaits the night prayer bell. But there is only silence. Cursing his fellow brother Cuthbert’s idleness, he seeks him out—and in the darkness, finds him brutally murdered. Summoned from London to the isolated monastery on the Yorkshire Moors, Aelred Barling, clerk to the King’s justices, and his messenger Hugo Stanton, set about investigating the horrific crime. They quickly discover that this is far from a quiet monastic house.

What is a monastery? A monastery is a place set apart—a place to learn the blessings of powerlessness, and that time is not ours but God's. Our home and our duties can, just like a monastery, teach us those things. The vocation of monastic men and women is to physically withdraw from the world. But the principle is equally valid for those of us who cannot go off to monasteries. Certain vocations offer the same kind of opportunity for contemplation, and provide a desert for reflection.

No single invention epitomizes the Victorian era more than the black cast-iron range. Aware that the 21st-century has reduced it to a quaint relic, Ruth Goodman was determined to prove that the hot coal stove provided so much more than morning tea: It might even have kick-started the Industrial Revolution. Wielding the wit and passion seen in How to Be a Victorian, Goodman traces the tectonic shift from wood to coal in the mid-16th century - from sooty trials and errors during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I to the totally smog-clouded reign of Queen Victoria. 

Orthodox Christian Prayers is made to be passed on from generation to generation.

Nearly ten years in the making, this liturgical translation of the Psalter is the result of a collaborative effort between translators, editors, scholars, church musicians, and the communities of St Vladimir's Seminary and St Tikhon's Monastery. The goal for this project was to find translational register that was both accurate to the original and, at the same time, felt familiar within the liturgical context in which it would be read and sung.

BOOK 3 IN THE BESTSELLING CANON CLEMENT MYSTERY SERIES 'A delightful piece of detective work' Mail on Sunday 'A very moreish read' Daily Telegraph Canon Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. But the monastery doesn't...

In the rain-soaked Valley of Despair, young Rune lives a quiet life with his father, a successful silk merchant. The valley, known for its sorrow and loss, becomes the unlikely setting for a divine calling. When a mysterious scroll from the Monastery of the Glen arrives at Rune’s doorstep, sealed with the mark of the Author of Love, everything changes. The scroll invites Rune on a sacred pilgrimage across nine provinces, a journey that will test his faith, courage, and purpose. Before he departs, Rune prepares meticulously—saying farewell to dear friends like Pip and the resilient Widow...

They swore the sword. The Chalice chose their fate. At Thornkeep, four knights find a relic that shares visions—and lets darkness look back. A crown that commands men has risen; only the lost Mirror at Blacktarn can show how to stop it. With an undying guardian at their side, a healer of many talents accompanying them, and a lord-scholar’s daughter riding home to the cause, the fellowship takes the first road of a war that will unmake empires—or them. Oaths & Omens launches a sweeping, Arthurian-tinged epic: ancient relics, tactical battles, crypts and cloisters, light medieval ...

The Shaolin Monastery charts for the first time in any language the history of the Shaolin Temple and the evolution of its world-renowned martial arts. In this meticulously researched and eminently readable study Meir Shahar considers the economic political and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.

Spiritual words shaped by the personal experiences of Elder Ephraim. Thirty three homilies that are indeed alive, informative, inspiring, and which outline, with profound simplicity, the means that securely lead to salvation.

'Thubten is a very generous and kind monk who writes with the lived honesty and humour of someone who has experienced the wisdom he shares. His writing is full of inspiration but also the pragmatism needed to form a sustainable practice. He clearly illustrates why we all need meditation and...

Cassiodorus: A Beginner's Guide: Legacy of a Roman Scholar Unlock the captivating world of Cassiodorus, a pivotal figure who bridged the gap between the classical past and the medieval future. This book is your gateway to understanding the life and legacy of a man whose contributions have shaped Western civilization. Step into a rich historical tapestry as you explore the life of Cassiodorus, a Roman statesman who seamlessly transitioned to a monastic scholar. His journey through the fall of Rome and the rise of medieval Europe is a tale of resilience, innovation, and enduring wisdom. ...

From the best-selling author of the biography of Shunryu Suzuki (Crooked Cucumber), comes a memoir and oral history of Tassajara—a monastery founded in 1967 by Shunryu Suzuki, abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. Peopled like a Sixties film of Buddhist invasion, with hippies, dreamers, lovers, a wave of serious practitioners. Nyogen Senzaki, D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts, Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and of course Shunryu Suzuki and Richard Baker are all here. This is the story of what happened at and surrounding the founding of the first Zen monastery in the West.

In the third century of the Common Era, a prince in Sri Lanka gave away his own head. Not metaphorically. Not in a parable. Quite literally. According to the chronicle you are about to read, King Sirisaṅghabodhi — having been driven from his throne, hunted through the forests of the island’s wet zone, and finally cornered — severed his own head and left it for his pursuer, so that the reward offered for it would feed the man who found it. He did this, the text tells us, as an act of dāna — generosity. The ultimate generosity. The gift that completes the perfections. This is a ...

The Holy Psalter contains the Psalms and other scriptural Odes that are used throughout the Orthodox Church's liturgical life. It uses the Greek Septuagint ("LXX") Old Testament, the scripture used by the Apostles and the early Christians, and by the Orthodox Church today.

Every monastery exudes the scent of holiness, but women's monasteries have their own special flavor. Join Constantina Palmer as she makes frequent pilgrimages to a women's monastery in Greece and absorbs the nuns' particular approach to their spiritual life. If you're a woman who's read of Mount Athos and longed to partake of its grace-filled atmosphere, this book is for you. Men who wish to understand how women's spirituality differs from their own will find it a fascinating listen as well.

"Divine Ascent - Daily Quotes” contains 366 of the most direct and inspiring quotations from "The Ladder of Divine Ascent" by Saint John Climacus. The Ladder of Divine Ascent is an important ascetical treatise for monasticism and for those of us living our Christian faith in the world. Written ca. 600 AD, The Ladder remains popular today.