The Family Cloister: Benedictine Wisdom for the Home

by David Robinson

Book Overview

This book is a collection of meditations on family life drawn from the ancient book,The Rule of St. Benedict. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824518276
• ISBN13: 9780824518271
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

The Adventure of Parenting

This book will be newly released in a revised and completely updated edition in September 2009, under the title, THE BUSY FAMILY'S GUIDE TO SPIRITUALITY. The Busy Family's Guide to Spirituality: Practical Lessons for Modern Living From the Monastic TraditionThe revised edition includes 49 practical exercises for families in growing together in faith, hope and love. Enjoy! Vincent Van Gogh painted a family scene titled "First Steps", a portrait of a father working in the family garden having just laid down his hoe to kneel down with open arms to receive his daughter. The mother has just stepped through a little white garden gate with a one year old baby girl dressed in a pink dress, has set the little girl down to take her "first steps" into Daddy's arms. Behind the family, an apple tree is in full springtime blossom with the humble cottage in the background. This painting captures the essence of "Family Spirituality", busy parents and children taking first steps together in the family garden where the fruitful and adventurous love labor of raising kids takes place all across the planet. As a Benedictine Oblate I believe "The Busy Family's Guide to Spirituality" will be an encouragement to any other Oblate parents who are wrestling with ways to implement the practical-spiritual vision of St. Benedict within the cloister of daily parenting.

Home Run for the Family

What a fresh perspective on family life. Having read a number of books about family life and raising children in a messed up world, this book has given my wife and I a new look at being a family. Combining the tradition of the Benedictine order and his own experience, David Robinson's first book challenges the hectic lifestyle which so many families are caught up in today. It suggests a framework within which to truly be a family. Habits shape our lives. And this great book, suggests we create wonderful habits to shape our family life. I'd like to say more, but as this fine work encouraged me, I am off to spend time with my family