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Michael Casey, a monk and scholar who has been publishing his wise teachings on the Rule of St. Benedict for decades, turns to the particular Benedictine values that he considers most urgent for Christians to incorporate into their lives today.
Eloquent and incisive, Casey invites readers to accept that gospel living - seen in the light of the Rule - involves accepting the challenge of being different from the secular culture around us. He encourages readers to set clear goals and objectives, to be honest about the practical ways in which priorities may have to change to meet these goals, and to have the courage to implement these changes both daily and for the future.
Casey presents thoughtful reflections on the beliefs and values of asceticism, silence, leisure, reading, chastity, and poverty - putting these traditional Benedictine values into the context of modern life and the spiritual aspirations of people today. Strangers to the City is a book for all who are interested in learning more about the dynamics of spiritual growth from the monastic experience.

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Among monastics the notice of a new offering by Michael Casey, OCSO, is treated as good news. In monastic circles, he seems to have a niche not unlike Thomas Merton and Henri Nouwen have with the general public. Strangers to the City is no exception.<br> Casey writes from the Cistercian perspective on the monastic life. Some Benedictines give him a demerit on that score. But not this reviewer. Casey writes for the monastic. in general but with a Cistercian flavor that benefits the most active of those Benedictines existing along the broad spectrum of what living according to the Rule implies. This book would appeal to the busiest oblate as well as to the Benedictine nun.<br> The key idea of this book is expressed in its title. the author writes in his preface. Benedict advises his monks 'to make themselves strangers to the actions of the age'-to become strangers to the city. This state of living somewhat apart, morally more implies an 'infrastructure of beliefs and values. Case

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Michael Casey is a Cistercian monk and prior of Tarrawarra Abbey in Australia. He is a well known retreat master and lecturer on monastic spirituality. Casey is the author of many books, including Toward God: The Ancient Wisdom of Western Prayer; A Guide to living in the Truth: Saint Benedict's teaching on Humility and fully Human, Fully Divine: An Interactive Christology.

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