The writings of St. Benedict newly translated and topically organized with commentary for practical application. When Rod Dreher published his book The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation in 2017, he had already been speaking about the concept of the Benedict Option (or BenOp, for short) for a number of years. Dreher's original articulation of the Benedict Option took its inspiration not only from a 6th century holy monk from Nursia, Italy, but also in part from the highly influential work of Alisdair MacIntyre, After Virtue. Both MacIntyre and Dreher (and many others in between and since) call out the fact that modern society in the secular global West is no longer conducive to the Christian way of life in any meaningful sense of the term-and that this has been the case for in fact quite some time.The Benedict Option was proposed by Rod Dreher as a strategy for Christians living in a post-Christian world, but that strategy has been around for over 1,500 years, and this book you right now hold in your hands is the original guidebook (the OG, if you will) from Benedict himself for how to do it. Let us be bold and follow where Christ our Master is leading us and, following this way, we will come to the wellsprings of new and everlasting life. This book contains the most important wisdom in Benedict's own words, organized topically in a fresh and accessible modern translation, along with commentary on Benedict's own advice on putting the Benedict Option into practice. Additionally included are two essays: On Christian Culture & What We Can Learn from the Monastery.

The Original Benedict Option Guidebook: Benedict of Nursia's Own Rules for Living Christian Community in a Post-Christian Society (Resources for the Benedict Option)

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of Nursia, Benedict

Thompson, Cameron M.

World

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Inspired by the practices of the great witnesses of truth & spiritual freedom of the last century. DescriptionThis book has one simple purpose: to be a tool for you to free your mind and heart from the system of lies and soft totalitarianism that day by day exerts greater and greater influence in our lives.\nThis journal is a must-have tool—the like of which preserved the spiritual freedom and sanity of a number of heroic witnesses of truth of the last century even in their darkest hours—in your quest to live not by lies and resist the soft totalitarianism that threatens to blot out the truth about reality, human dignity, and our divine calling. Each day you will find herein the opportunity to write about your journey in seeking for, and living in, the truth. This journal will guide you through the opportunity to record the beauty of the truth you see in the world around you, to document the challenges you face each day in living for the sake of truth, and to identify and write down the truth each day so that it cannot be erased or forgotten. 
All this can be accomplished in just five minutes a day—time that is sacred, time that is just yours, free from coercion, free from the lies, to simply live in and speak boldly the Truth.\nSo now, with this journal—this precious tool to resist tyranny—in hand and the truth in your mind and heart, resist the darkness and Live Not By Lies. “Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.” —Michael Ende, The Neverending Story\nFrom the Back Cover\nIn the original 1974 underground publication titled "Live Not by Lies," the great anti-totalitarian Alexandre Solzhenitsyn prophetically stated:\n"We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to sheepishly babble:\n"But what can we do to stop it? We haven't the strength."\nIt's true, he said, we can't directly confront the system politically, but we do have the simplest, the most accessible key to our own liberation: a personal non-participation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!\nSo now, with this journal—this precious tool to resist tyranny—in hand and the truth in your mind and heart, resist the darkness and Live Not By Lies.

Live Not By Lies Journal: 365 Days of Interior Freedom (Resources for the Benedict Option)

Self-Help

Thompson PsyD, Cameron M.

Personal Transformation

Waiting for Christ’s Coming: Meditations for Advent, Christmas, & Epiphany (Annotated)

Religion & Spirituality

Newman, JOhn Henry

Christian Books & Bibles

Stations of the Cross & The 12 Solemn Intercessions for Good Friday (Illustrated): Meditations on the Passion and Death of Our Lord

The Pearl & A Homily on Our Lord by St. Ephrem the Syrian: New orthodox translations of Ephrem the Syrian and biography of Ephrem by Theophan the Recluse

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

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