Monastery Without Walls

The Spiritual Letters of John Main

By: John Main, Laurence Freeman (Editor)

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Much of today's fascination with and attraction to the Rule of St. Benedict can be attributed to John Main, a Benedictine monk, who first saw that this rule of life for monastic communities could be relevant for Christian living in the secular world. He founded a community of lay people who shared his vision and from this small beginning has grown. The World Community for Christian Meditation which today is active in numerous countries around the world and has thousands of members and associates. Its work, and its emphasis on meditation, derives directly from the Benedictine focus on prayer and lectio divina or holy reading. Right up to the end of his life in 1982, John Main wrote a series of remarkable letters of spiritual direction to WCCM's growing family. Two collections have previously been published and are now out of print and the complete letters are now published in this single volume. Together they constitute a volume of remarkable spiritual wisdom and insight, as fresh and relevant for today as when they were first written.

LAURENCE FREEMAN osb is a Benedictine monk who worked with John Main from the beginning and is very much his successor. He runs the London Christian Meditation Centre and travels the world giving seminars and workshops on the work of John Main. He is based at the Monastery of Christ the King, Cockfosters.

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A new monasticism	p. 3
How to meditate	p. 32
The letters
From the heart - planting the seed	p. 33
Called to holiness	p. 35
Being on the way	p. 38
Accept the gift	p. 45
Fully open and alive	p. 53
Beyond ourselves	p. 60
Faith beyond belief	p. 69
Returning home	p. 77
Recovering our roots	p. 87
The authority of experience	p. 95
Gifts of obedience	p. 100
Continuous conversion	p. 108
Summoned to sanity	p. 114
The present Christ - first harvest	p. 123
The silence of real knowledge	p. 125
Absolute gift	p. 135
Preparing for birth	p. 144
Faith and belief	p. 153
The present Christ	p. 161
Sacramental vision	p. 172
The Christian crisis	p. 182
Self-will and divine will	p. 191
A way of vision	p. 200
Parts of a whole	p. 207
Beyond memory	p. 214
The oceans of God	p. 221
A theology of experience	p. 232
Biography of John Main	p. 248
The world community for Christian meditation : centres/contacts worldwide
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