Libri al Tavolo
Nel capitolo 38 della Regola, San Benedetto dice che: “Alle mense dei fratelli, quando mangiamo, non mai dee mancare la lettura; né uno, chiunque sia, prendasi così un codice, e ardisca di mettersi a leggere: ma bensì colui che dovrà leggere tutta la settimana, entri al suo ufficio la domenica”.
A Norcia, i testi letti a tavola, tendono a spaziare su tematiche riguardanti la vita monastica, la storia italiana o gli studi liturgici. Oltre a queste tematiche, sono molto lette anche le biografie e gli articoli di riviste contemporanee.
Di seguito riportiamo un elenco di libri che abbiamo letto dall’inizio della nostra fondazione a Roma:
| Schuster | St. Benedict and his Times | ante 5/99 |
| Pope John Paul II | Fides et Ratio | ante 5/99 |
| Ward, Benedicta | Lives of the Desert Fathers | ante 5/99 |
| Herbstrith, Waltraud | Edith Stein | ante 5/99 |
| Pope John Paul II | Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee Year | ante 5/99 |
| Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph | Milestones | ante 5/99 |
| Cassian, St. John | Institutes | ante 5/99 |
| Weigel, George | Witness to Hope | post 6/99 |
| Soltner, Louis | Solesmes and Dom Gueranger | post 6/99 |
| Augustine, St. | Confessions | post 6/99 |
| Vogue, Adalbert de | Life of St. Benedict | post 6/99 |
| Sophrony, Archimandrite | Wisdom from Mount Athos | post 6/99 |
| Guardini, Romano | The Spirit of the Liturgy | 2001.09 |
| Clement, St. | Apostolic letter | 2001.09 |
| Mabillon, Jean | Aims and Attitudes of Monks at Study | 2001.09 |
| Eusebius | Ecclesiastical History | 2001.09 |
| Butler, Cuthbert | Benedictine Monasticism | 2001.11 |
| Magrassi, Mariano | An Introduction to Lectio Divina | 2001.12 |
| Derrick, Christopher | Escape from Scepticism: As if Truth Mattered | 2001.12 |
| Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol | 2002.01 |
| Pachomian Koinonia V.I. | 2002.02 | |
| Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph | Behold, The Pierced One | 2002.04 |
| Schememann, Alexander | Great Lent | 2002.05 |
| French, RM | Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim Continues His Way | 2002.05 |
| Cassian, St. John | Conferences | 2002.05 |
| Morin, Germain | Ideal of the Monastic Life | 2002.06 |
| CICL | Starting Afresh from Christ | 2002.06 |
| Ravier S.J., Andre | Saint Bruno:The Carthusian | 2002.06 |
| Grosso, Mariano | Santa Scolastica | 2002.08 |
| Ricciotti, Giuseppe | The Age of Martyrs:Christianity from Diocletian to Constantine | 2002.10 |
| Nguyễn Văn Thuận, Francis Xavier | Testimony of Hope | 2002.12 |
| Goldmann, O.F.M., Fr. Gereon | The Shadow of His Wings | 2003.01 |
| Kadloubovsky, E. & Palmer, G.E.H. | Writings from the Philokalia on Prayer of the Heart | 2003.03 |
| Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph | Il Dio Vicino; l’eucaristia cuore della vita cristiana | 2003.07 |
| Nichols, O.P., Aidan | Looking at the Liturgy: A critical view of its contemporary form | 2003.07 |
| Pope John Paul II | Ecclesia de Eucharistia | 2003.08 |
| Cistercian Series: #33 | Dorotheos of Gaza: Discources and Sayings | 2003.08 |
| L’Osservatore Romano: Pontifical Council for Culture | Jesus Christ: The Bearer of the Water of Life (A Christian reflection on the ‘New Age’) | 2003.08 |
| L’Osservatore Romano: Pope John Paul II | Ecclesia in Europa | 2003.10 |
| Bunge, O.S.B., Gabriel | Earthen Vessels: The Practice of Personal Prayer according to the Patristic Tradition | 2003.10 |
| Farmer, David Hugh | Benedict’s Disciples | 2004.04 |
| Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph | God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald | 2004.06 |
| Papa Giovanni Paolo II | Alzatevi, Andiamo! | 2004.07 |
| Lang, U.M. | Turning Towards the Lord | 2004.08 |
| Cyril of Scythopolis | The Lives of the Monks of Palestine | 2004.09 |
| Dickens, Charles | The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth | 2004.12 |
| Brown, Peter | Augustine of Hippo: A Biography | 2005.01 |
| Hausherr, Irénée | The Name of Jesus: The Names of Jesus Used by Early Christians, The Development of the ‘Jesus Prayer’ | 2005.02 |
| Hausherr, Irénée | Penthos: The Doctrine of Compunction in the Christian East | 2005.02 |
| Ratzinger, Cardinal Joseph | Senza Radici | 2005.04 |
| Peters, Walter | The Life of Benedict XV | 2005.06 |
| Ward, Benedicta | The Sayings of the Desert Fathers | 2005.07 |
| The Fathers of the Church, Early Christian Biographies | 2005.10′ | |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Edmund Campion | 2005.11′ |
| Saward, John | Beauty of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty | 2005.11′ |
| Peters, Edward | Monks, Bishops and Pagans, Life of St. Columbanus | 2005.12 |
| Baur, O.S.B., Rev. Chrysostomus | John Chrysostom and His Time Vol. 1, Antioch | 2006.02 |
| Saward, John | Cradle of Redeeming Love | 2006.03 |
| Lunardi, Giovanni | La Congregazione Sublacense O.S.B | 2006.04 |
| Chrysostom, St.John | Baptismal Instructions | 2006.04 |
| Conant, Kenneth John | Benedictine Contributions to Church Architecture | 2006.05 |
| Luykx, Archimandrite Boniface | Eastern Monasticism and the Future of the Church | 2006.05 |
| Longenecker, Dwight | St. Benedict and St. Thérèse: The Little Rule and the Little Way | 2006.06 |
| Leclercq and Giustiani | Camaldolese Extraordinary | 2006.07 |
| Leclercq, Jean | The Love of Learning and the Desire for God | 2006.06 |
| Assenmacher, Hugh | A place called Subiaco | 2006.10. |
| Vivian, Tim | Paphnutius: Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius | 2006.10. |
| Paredi, Angelo | St. Ambrose, His Life and Times | 2006.12 |
| Robinson, Jonathan | The Mass and Modernity: Walking to Heaven Backward | 2007.01 |
| Aradi, Zolt | Pius XI: The Pope and the Man | 2007.02 |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Four Loves | 2007.02 |
| Benedict XVI, Pope | Sacramentum Caritatis | 2007.03 |
| Lackner, S O Cist, Bede | Eleventh Century Background of Cluny | 2007.05 |
| Karolevitz | Bishop Martin Marty: “The Black Robe Lean Chief” | 2007.07 |
| Early Monastic Rules: Rules of the Fathers and Regula Orientalis | 2007.07 | |
| Benedict XVI, Pope | Jesus of Nazareth Part I | 2007.08 |
| Andenna, Giancarlo e Bonetti Cinzia | Benedetto di Aniane: Vita e riforma monastica | 2007.09 |
| Kleber OSB, Albert | History of St. Meinrad Archabbey | 2007.10′ |
| Rule of St. Augustine | 2007.10′ | |
| Thompson, Augustine, O.P. | Cities of God | 2008.01′ |
| St Athanasius | Life of St. Anthony and the Letter to Marcellinus | 2008.02′ |
| Macmanus, Francis | Saint Columban | 2008.04′ |
| Mullins, Edwin | Cluny: In Search of God’s Lost Empire | 2008.06 |
| Gruber OSB, Mark | Sacrifice in the Desert: A study of an Egyptian minority through the prism of coptic monasticism | 2008.07 |
| Schonborn, Christoph | Chance or Purpose: Creation, Evolution and a Rational Faith | 2008.07 |
| Butler, Cuthbert | Benedictine Monachism | 2008.10′ |
| Herin, Judith | Byzantium: The surprising life of a medieval empire | 2008.11 |
| Granzotto, Gianni | Carlo Magno | 2008.12 |
| Gruber OSB, Mark | Journey Back to Eden: My life and Times among the Desert Fathers | 2009.01 |
| John Gerard | The Autobiography of an Elizabethan | 2009.02 |
| Mabillon, Jean | Treatise on Monastic Studies | 2009.03 |
| Goodier | Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ | 2009. Holy Week |
| St. Augustine | Sermons for Liturgical Seasons: Easter Week | 2009. Easter Week |
| Gamber, Msgr. Klaus | The Reform of the Roman Liturgy | 2009.04 |
| Beauduin OSB, Lambert | Liturgy: the Life of the Church | 2009.05 |
| Seewald, Peter | Benedict XVI: An Intimate Portrait | 2009.06 |
| Brandmüller, Walter | Light and Shadows: Church History amid Faith, Fact, and Legend | 2009.06 |
| Davril, Anselme & Palazzo, Eric | La Vita Dei Monaci-Al Tempo Delle Grandi Abbazie | 2009.07 |
| Translator: Cabaniss, Allen | Benedict of Aniane: The Emperor’s Monk | 2009.07 |
| Trochu, Abbé Francis | The Curé D’Ars: St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney | 2009.09 |
| Translator: Eric P. Wheeler | Dorotheos of Gaza: Discourses and Sayings | 2009.10′ |
| King, Peter | Western Monasticism: A History of the Monastic Movement in the Latin Church | 2009.11 |
| Chitty, Derwas J. | The Desert A City | 2010.01 |
| Dudden, B.D., F. Homes | Gregory the Great: His Place in History and Thought Vol. 1 | 2010.02 |
| Tim Vivian, Kim Vivian & Jeffrey Burton | The Lives of the Jura Fathers | 2010.04 |
| Moorhouse, Geoffrey | The Last Divine Office: Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries | 2010.04 |
| Pachomius | Pachomian Kononia v. 2: Pachomian Chronicles and Rules | 2010.06 |
| Pachomius | Pachomian Koinonia v. 3: Insturctions, letters, and other writings of Saint Pachomius and his disciples | 2010.06 |
| The Fathers of The Church | Barsunuphius and John: Letters Vol. 1 | 2010.07 |
| Clayton, Joseph | Pope Innocent III and his times | 2010.08 |
| St Peter Damian | The Letters of St Peter Damian Volume I | 2010.09 |
| Scenuda III | Il Risveglio spirituale | 2010.09 |
| Giovanni Spinelli, O.S.B. | Monaci per l’Europa | 2010.09 |
| Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli | Celestino V: Il Papa Eremita | 2010.10 |
| Arnaldo Fortini | Francis of Assisi | 2010.10 |
| Mariano Magrassi | Bibbia e Preghiera | 2010.10 |
| Joseph Ratzinger, Marcello Pera | Senza Radici: Europa, relativismo, cristianesimo, islam | 2010.10 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Luce del Mondo | 2010.11 |
| Andrea Pamparana | Benedetto: Padre di molti popoli | 2011.01 |
| Roberto de Mattei | Il Concilio Vaticano II | 2011.02 |
| Gertrude Gillette | The 4 faces of Anger: Seneca, Evagrius, Cassian, Augustine | 2011.03 |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Jesus of Nazareth Part 2 | 2011-Holy Week |
| Papa Benedetto XVI | Gesu di Nazaret II | 2011.Settimana Santa |
| Theodoret of Cyrrhus | A history of the monks of Syria | 2011.05 |
| C. Bernard Ruffin | The days of the Martyrs | 2011.05 |
| Mother Mary Francis P.C.C. | But I have called you friends | 2011.07 |
| John Moschus | The Spiritual Meadow | 2011.08 |
| Massimo Viglione | 1861; Le Due Italie | 2011.08 |
| David Barry (traduttore) | Commentary on the rule of Saint Benedict by Smaragdus of Saint-Mihiel | 2011.09 |