The Wound of LoveWhat is Carthusian life really like? What actually goes on in a Charterhouse? Is the Order's ancient mixture of carefully regulated solitary and community life a hoepless harking back to the Middle Ages, or is it relevant to modern lifestyles and problems? If any book can answer these questions, it is The Wound of Love. It provides background information on the Carthusian Order, including letters from St Bruno, its founder, and a reflection on Bruno's continuing significance today. The many concerns of Carthusian life are evident here: solitude, fraternal love, prayer, monastic vows, work and lirturgy, and each is tackled with great honesty, wit and wisdom. This book is testimony to how much there is to be learned about life 'in' the world from the Carthusians' standpoint 'outside' it. While the Carthusian call to find God always and everywhere is essentially the same vocation as that of all Christians, there is an intensity about the monastic life which distils the message and makes it more fiery, more compelling. This book will prove a bracing brew for all those who would sample it. Other books of Carthusian spirituality published by Gracewing include The Call of Silent Love, The Prayer of Love and Silence, and They Speak by Silences. |
Contents
St Bruno Pathway to Life | 13 |
The Degrees of Solitude | 19 |
Beyond the Absolute | 25 |
And Jesus Took with Him | 35 |
Learning to Listen | 44 |
A Mystery | 54 |
The Facets of Silence | 61 |
A Mystery of Silence | 69 |
Perseverance in the Crucible | 141 |
To Create is to Forget | 159 |
Reborn Every Moment | 166 |
Contemplative Poverty | 177 |
The Liberty of St Bruno | 186 |
Contemplative Chastity | 192 |
My Work is the Lord | 199 |
Work as Contemplation | 210 |
A Devouring Fire | 91 |
Jesus in the Wilderness | 99 |
The Threefold Temptation | 105 |
Isaac Regained | 114 |
Ebb and Flow | 223 |
The Monk as Priest | 231 |
Separated from All United | 239 |
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Common terms and phrases
Absolute accept activity adoration allow asceticism attitude become body brothers Camaldolese Carthusian cenobitic charism Charterhouse children of God Christ Christian Church communion completely contemplation created depths desert desire divine earth enter eternal Eucharist everything existence eyes face faith Father fidelity fruit gaze gift give glory goal God's Gospel grace Grande Chartreuse Gregory of Nyssa heart heaven hidden Holy Spirit human humility infinite interior Jesus lectio divina light listen liturgy living Lord Mary means mind monastic monk Montalegre mystery nature NRSV obedience offering oneself ourselves Paschal Mystery perfect perseverance person possess poverty pray prayer presence pure purification purity reality realize receive remain Resurrection revealed seek silence simply solitary solitude soul speak St Bruno stability Statutes temptation things transformed true truly trust truth turn uncon unity vocation vows welcomed whole words Yahweh