Ora et Labora in Our Common Home

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A Benedictine Invitation to Care for Creation

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Discover how a Benedictine way of life can inform and inspire our care for creation.What is the relevance of the Benedictine tradition for an integral ecology? In Ora et Labora in Our Common Home, Lucas Briola unearths the deep roots of the Benedictine tradition and explores how the Benedictine way of life can inform and inspire our care for creation. Through a close reading of the Rule of Benedict, Briola examines seven practices and habits characteristic of that life that sustain an integral ecology: listening, stability, humility, hospitality, eating, working, and praise.Ora et Labora in Our Common Home situates the 1,500-year-old heritage of Benedictine monasticism in dialogue with our ecological plight, showing the perennial wisdom of this venerable tradition. In so doing, the book offers a Benedictine vision of integral-ecological conversion that ranges from the smallest details of life with other creatures to the universal chorus of praise that draws all creation together to life with God. Ultimately, it captures how concern for our common home is inseparable from Saint Benedict’s call to “prefer nothing whatever to Christ” (RB 72.11).

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-15
Mått127 x 203 x 13 mm
Vikt227 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagLiturgical Press
ISBN9798400801587

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Lucas Briola is an associate professor of theology and Endowed Chair in Catholic Thought and Culture at Saint Vincent College (Latrobe, PA). There, he also serves as the Director of the Saint Vincent Center for Catholic Thought and Culture. He is the author of The Eucharistic Vision of Laudato Si’: Praise, Conversion, and Integral Ecology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2023), along with numerous academic and popular articles.

ContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction An Integral Benedictine Ecology? 1SEEChapter 1 Listening: Hearing the Cries of the Earth and the Poor 29Chapter 2 Stability: Recovering a Sense of (Common) Home 54JUDGEChapter 3 Humility: Overcoming Tyrannical Anthropocentrism 81Chapter 4 Hospitality: Overcoming the Technocratic Paradigm 103ACTChapter 5 Fruit of the Earth: Eating for Integral-Ecological Communion 131Chapter 6 Work of Human Hands: Working for Integral-Ecological Communion 157Chapter 7 The Opus Dei: Laudato Si’! 180ConclusionTo Prefer Nothing to Christ: The Peace of Our Common Home 207Selected Bibliography on Benedictines and Ecology 216

“With his landmark volume Ora et Labora in Our Common Home, Lucas Briola offers a compelling retrieval of the Benedictine tradition as a vital yet often overlooked resource for integral ecology. Through a close reading of the Rule of St. Benedict in dialogue with an impressive array of theological voices, he brings its wisdom to bear on the challenges of modern living, revealing a mode of existence in which prayer, work, and community are integrated in a way that orders the human person toward harmony with the broader created order. Significantly, the endeavor is grounded at every turn in serious theology yet moves beyond theory to recover habits and disciplines that make ecological conversion possible. A rich and constructive contribution to contemporary Catholic thought, it will be essential reading for all who desire to embrace the Church’s vision of care for creation.”Matthew J. Ramage, PhD, professor of theology at Benedictine College and author of Cosmic Covenant: A Catholic Theology of Creation and Communion