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Recommended BOOKS — Contemplative Spirituality (Click on each link to order)

The Cloud of Unknowing. Edited by William Johnston. Garden City: Image Books, 1973

Chittister, Joan, OSB, Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2000

Cummings, Charles, OCSO, The Mystery of the Ordinary

Davis, Bruce. Monastery Without Walls: Daily Life in the Silence. Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1990
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Finley, James. The Contemplative Heart. Notre Dame: Sorin Books, 2000

Manss, Virginia and Frohlich, Mary, Editors. The Lay Contemplative: Testimonies, Perspectives, Resources. Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2000

Merton, Thomas. New Seeds of Contemplation. New York: Direction Books, 1961

__________. The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation. New York: Harper Collins Books, 2003

Skinner, John. ed. Wisdom of the Cloister. New York: Image Books, 1999

Vest, Norvene. No Moment Too Small: Rhythms of Silence, Prayer and Holy Reading. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1994

The New Stations of the Cross : The Way of the Cross According to Scripture