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The Yoke of Divine Love: A Study of Conventual Perfection is a book written by Hubert Van Zeller that explores the concept of spiritual perfection within the context of convent life. The book delves into the idea of the ""yoke"" of Divine Love, which represents the burden that must be carried by those who seek to achieve spiritual perfection. Van Zeller examines the various challenges and obstacles that nuns face in their quest for perfection, including the struggle against pride, the need for detachment, and the importance of humility. He also explores the role of prayer, contemplation, and community in the spiritual growth of nuns, and offers practical advice on how to cultivate these virtues. Overall, The Yoke of Divine Love is a thoughtful and insightful exploration of the spiritual journey of nuns, and provides valuable insights for anyone seeking to deepen their own spiritual life.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Sanctity In Other Words: A Presentation For Beginners is a book written by Hubert Van Zeller. The book is aimed at those who are interested in exploring the concept of sanctity in a simple and accessible manner. The author starts by defining the term ""sanctity"" and then goes on to explain how it can be achieved by individuals in their daily lives. The book is divided into several chapters, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of sanctity. The author discusses the importance of prayer, the role of the sacraments, and the need for self-discipline and self-control. He also talks about the virtues that are necessary for achieving sanctity, such as humility, obedience, and detachment.Throughout the book, the author uses examples from the lives of saints to illustrate his points. He also includes practical advice and exercises that readers can use to help them on their own journey towards sanctity. Overall, Sanctity In Other Words: A Presentation For Beginners is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of the concept of sanctity and learn how to achieve it in their own lives. The book is written in a clear and engaging style, making it accessible to readers of all backgrounds and levels of spiritual development.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

"Prayer must necessarily involve a discipline, but it need not involve a system...In our prayer we must return to the primary purpose of what we are trying to do: we are trying to bring worship to God. The greatest act of worship that man can give to God is to refer back to him what God has already given. Man has nothing of his own to offer, nothing that has not been lent by God."Almost everyone who has believed in God has wondered how to pray to him. But in the same way that no two relationships are identical, no two people's prayer life with God are identical. More important than praying perfectly is praying diligently, with reliance on God's grace, and a readiness to "remain in whatever state of spirituality God chooses to allow." By uniting penance, confidence, and humility to prayer, man will avoid the snares of the devil and come to greater union with God. This book is not for those seeking a step-by-step guide to the interior life of prayer. But it is for those who desire to do everything they can to come close to God. By laying out the principles of prayer, Van Zeller provides both an understandable education for those who have just begun to think about prayer, as well as a helpful review and self-examination for those who have been praying for many years.

Dom Hubert, in summing up this book's theme, quotes Joubert: "How many people eat, drink, marry, buy, sell, build, make fortunes, acquire friends and enemies, enjoy pleasure, endure pain; in short are born, grow up and die-but asleep." It is this sleep which Dom Hubert desires to combat in this series of reflections upon the relations of man with his fellow humans and God. Prayer and the life of grace, married love and friendship, modernity and the Gospel all feature in these pages. The wide array of topics addressed include:How to assist at Mass, and whether or not "Ought I to use a missal or can I go on saying the rosary?" is even the right questionThe difference between sensation and sentiment in married loveThe expression, material, and problem with interior prayer (not to mention it's condition and idiom)The vocation of teachers and the necessity of treating pupils with a supernatural outlookHow to approach the universal call to mystical union with GodWhat true asceticism asks and how it operates.How both the Mass and Marriage call us to a Johannine charityIn the midst of the reflections, Dom Hubert pauses to recall one of his main sources of inspiration-a close friend, the Dominican Father Bede Jarret, and a last series of conversations before Father Jarret's death. "Much especially that deals with Christian love is an echo of those August mornings," writes Dom Hubert, "While the section describing leadership has Father Bede of course as a model."Born in British-controlled Egypt, Dom Hubert van Zeller (1905-1984) was a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey in Bath, England, where he was educated. Of his scholastic career he said that he "passed no examinations-merely by-passed them." The author of numerous books ranging from scriptural commentary to fiction and biography, he was also renowned as a minimalist sculptor and cartoonist. He was a friend of Ronald Knox and of Evelyn Waugh, who described Dom Hubert's writings as "characterized by vitality and elegance."

Sometimes real breakthroughs in your spiritual life come about only after searing self-examination. Dom Hubert van Zeller encourages "seeking the face of the Lord always," adding that "the whole of our effort of faith, exercised throughout life, amounts precisely to this." When it is pursued properly and consistently, countless benefits, spiritual and otherwise, soon follow.A Carthusian monk, Dom van Zeller produced works that became exceedingly popular in the 1950s. He had the rare gift of translating monastic spiritual wisdom, developed over centuries, into clear, practical advice for ordinary Catholics seeking to deepen their prayer lives. The Inner Search, one of his most enduring and readable books, takes as its point of departure the psalmist's exhortation to seek the Lord's face continually and reveals: The single most powerful "vitalizing factor" in the spiritual lifeFive things that foster the gift of spiritual "discernment"What spiritual "over eagerness" is, and how it can hamper the action of grace The bad habit to which almost every excess in the spiritual life can be traced The worldview that leads to perpetual frustration -- and the worldview that leads to happiness Three ways God "exactly fits" our spiritual sufferings to our souls' specific needs and capacitiesDom van Zeller explores false ideas about God's will that impede our progress toward sanctity and explains how to recognize and correct them. He also explains the root cause of unhappiness and the single issue on which our lives will be judged. (Can you guess?)You will come to understand the relationship between the ascetical life and mystical life and the importance of mental prayer and charity. You will also be consoled by the way the Holy Spirit works to make us contemplatives in the midst of the world. Moreover, you will see what it means to "discover Godpresent in the soul" (an important step in spiritual progress) and how best to attain this union with the Holy Trinity here on earth."The saints are those in whom there is least obstacle to the life of Christ within the soul," van Zeller reflects. In this profound and penetrating classic, you will find out how to open your heart more fully to receive all the graces God wants to give you.

"The end of penance is God, not more penances. Thus the approach to penance has to be by way of love, not by way of steeling the will to toughness. Penance must have its roots in charity, not austerity."With characteristic Benedictine discretion, Van Zeller here sets straight common misapprehensions of penance, steering the reader past the Scylla of extremism on the one hand and the Charybdis of avoiding this essential virtue of the Christian life on the other hand. "Take up your cross and follow me," Christ asks each disciple in turn. It is thus a joyful duty for all to understand and approach the penitential cross correctly. Rather than a frightful self-punishment, penance is rather a means to an end-God-and thus must always be tempered and exercised according to that end. Cast in this light, what Van Zeller teaches here is not how one is to do penance, but how one ought to approach penance: "In the last analysis we cannot guarantee the measure of asceticism which will atone for our sins or bring us one single step closer to union with God. Is it not much wiser then to make for something which can be guaranteed? Is it not better to have recourse to Christ, and learn from him a lesson of love? Christ atones for us; love draws us nearer to union." Equipped with this knowledge, each reader may go forth with complete freedom to gladly bear the cross that Christ has fashioned.

The year is 1975. A young man...a painter. Having converted, he tries his vocation as a monk, but decides that monastic life is not for him. Thrown back on his own resources, he quickly becomes enmeshed in difficulties-not least, when he discovers an unusually sympathetic ear in a young married woman-and he struggles to find a place in the contemporary Church. Throughout his searching, he turns to the Benedictine Dom Hubert for counsel, wondering what to do with his feelings. Dom Hubert, also an artist, offers practical advice to his correspondent while astutely pinpointing his mistakes. Not only fascinating as an historical snapshot of the world in 1975 through the eyes of a widely-travelled monk, these letters, full of wit and insight, address many topics which remain pertinent today, including:Seeking peace and balance in the life of the spiritProgress in prayer, and the danger of self-absorption Chastity, and the difference between romance, love, and friendshipPapal infallibility, obedience in the Church, and the crisis of religious vocationsLiturgical aesthetics, the Charismatic movement, and the Latin MassThe fear that God is not enough to satisfy man.¿Dom Hubert van Zeller (1905-1984) was born in British-controlled Egypt and became a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey in Bath, England. The author of numerous books ranging from scriptural commentary to fiction and biography, he was also renowned as a minimalist sculptor and cartoonist. He was a friend of Ronald Knox and of Evelyn Waugh, who described Dom Hubert's writings as 'characterised by vitality and elegance'.

In this timeless classic first written in 1963, celebrated Benedictine monk, author, and sculptor Hubert van Zeller (1905-1984) offers an eloquent response to the question of human suffering: Those who endure suffering with hope and trust in Divine Providence will embark on an ever-deeper path to holiness that leads to eternal glory. Van Zeller believed that those who surrender to the pain and embrace it as a way to identify with the Passion of Christ discover its deeper meaning, replacing fear with trust, resistance with peace, and defeat with the "e;triumph of grace."e;