It is a rare occurrence for the Order's wisdom to be shared with the outside world, but this book does exactly that.

The theme of this first volume of conferences is the Beatitudes, and the apparent contradictions they contain are shown to offer a radical freedom to those who respond to the call to live wholly in Christ. An important message of the book is that this call is not restricted to those who have a vocation to the monastic life, but to all Christians: ‘The Christian is not a separate species of human being, but what each person is called to be. And the monk is not a separate species of Christian. He tries to be what each Christian ought to be. Conformity to Christ in faith, hope, and love, this is holiness, and each person is called to this holiness.”

Paperback, 144 pages.

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A precious volume offering an illuminating, even, dazzling, insight into Carthusian ways that are little known, indeed traditionally hidden. Here are men who for all their silence need to be heard.' (The Tablet)