Monastic practices

"The following chapters study our common monastic practices as still viable means of leading contemporary monks and nuns to a deeper experience of God in faith, hope and love. These traditional practices are still viable, in the sense of being at the service of life, if we know how to use them and how to give ourselves to them until they lead us to God. This will be a 'how to' book more than a theological or historical study of monastic customs. It is not only newcomers who need to learn how. All of us need to rediscover deeper levels of meaning in the things we do every day: our interactions…