Book of the Month
LIVING THE HOURS: Monastic spirituality in everyday life
By Anthony Grimley and Jonathan M Wooding
£14.99
For anyone wanting to understand how the elements of the monastic life can provide a source and meaning for a balanced lifestyle for today and how the adapting of these elements have produced new expressions of monasticism, this is a serious book. It traces the history and what has been subtracted from the past to provide a meaningful form of secular monasticism as a way of living for today. It offers an in-depth approach when considering this ‘unique’ lifestyle and the emerging new expressions of monasticism that are becoming, for many people, a source of great attraction.
This is essentially a practical book, and at the end of each chapter there are questions for reflection and suggestions for further reading. For those seeking focus, meaning and balance in their everyday lives, the authors wish to engage the reader in their own exploration of discovery that ‘monastic spirituality can provide fresh purpose and a renewed energy for living … to our often neglected inner lives’.
