READINGS

Many of us who have visited other monasteries find ourselves naturally (as good Dominicans) exploring their libraries, and often return home with a wish list of books to add to our own library. This space will identify books useful for study.

• Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP's The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (The Catholic University of America Press, 2023). (Posted 12/16/23)

• Abuses in the Religious Life and the Path to Healing (Sophia Institute Press, 2020) by Dom Dysmas de Lassus,O. Cart., superior general of the Carthusians. (Posted 12/16/23)

• The Divine Office Hymnal (GIA, 2023). Has your community adopted the hymnal yet? (Posted 12/16/23)

• A fascinating story of four women philosophers: The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb. (Posted 4/1/23)

• An overdue translation of a foundational resource book on the liturgy (originally published in 1923) by the great Guardini: Liturgy and Liturgical Formation by Romano Guardini. (Posted 4/1/23)

Articles and Essays of Interest

Book Recommendations

• “Studiositas: The Virtue of Attention” (Professor Gregory M. Reichberg)

During my November 2022 stay with the nuns at Lunden Kloster, Oslo, Norway, I had the opportunity to meet with Professor Eric Reichberg, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and consultor to the Holy See's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

Our conversation turned to St. Thomas Aquinas and he shared with me his excellent article, which addresses the habitus of study, so integral to our formation as Dominican Nuns. (Posted 4/1/23)