The Ladder of Monks: A Letter on the Contemplative Life and Twelve Meditations

by Edmund Colledge

'My thoughts on the spiritual exercises proper to cloistered monks'; the ninth prior of La Grande Chartreuse ( '1180) articulates the monastic contemplative tradition in distinctively western... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385135963
• ISBN13: 9780385135962
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Image
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

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Not just for monks

Guigo II was a 12th-century Carthusian monk, the ninth prior of the Grande Chartreuse. This is the classic work on lectio divina, a way of incorporating sacred reading in prayer. While not a how-to manual, this little book outlines four steps in lectio divina: reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation. Guigo also provides an easily-understood rationale for this way of prayer. This English translation is by the editors of the critical Latin-French edition in the Sources Chretiennes series.