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A Time to Die

Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life

By: Nicolas Diat

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A Time to Die

Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life

By: Nicolas Diat

Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by everyone—the end of life. How to die? How to respond to our fear of death? To answer these and other questions, Diat travelled to eight European monasteries including Solesmes Abbey and the Grande Chartreuse. Through extraordinary interviews with monks, he learned that their death experiences are varied and unique, with elements of peace, pain, humility, sorrow, and joy. These monks have the same fears, torments, and sorrows as everyone else, Diat discovered. What is exemplary about them is their humility and simplicity. When death approaches, and its hand reveals its strength, they are like happy and naïve children who wait with impatience to open a gift. They have complete confidence in the mercy of God.

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Ignatius Press

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1621642747

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The Day Is Now Far Spent

By: Robert Sarah,Nicolas Diat

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The Day Is Now Far Spent

By: Robert Sarah,Nicolas Diat

Robert Cardinal Sarah calls The Day Is Now Far Spent his most important book. He analyzes the spiritual, moral, and political collapse of the Western world and concludes that "the decadence of our time has all the faces of mortal peril." A cultural identity crisis, he writes, is at the root of the problems facing Western societies. "The West no longer knows who it is, because it no longer knows and does not want to know who made it, who established it, as it was and as it is. Many countries today ignore their own history. This self-suffocation naturally leads to a decadence that opens the path to new, barbaric civilizations." While making clear the gravity of the present situation, the cardinal demonstrates that it is possible to avoid the hell of a world without God, a world without hope. He calls for a renewal of devotion to Christ through prayer and the practice of virtue.

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Ignatius Press

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1642290904

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The Power of Silence

Against the Dictatorship of Noise

By: Robert Cardinal Sarah,Nicolas Diat

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The Power of Silence

Against the Dictatorship of Noise

By: Robert Cardinal Sarah,Nicolas Diat

In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service.

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1621641910

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A Time to Die

Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life

By: Nicolas Diat

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The Day Is Now Far Spent

By: Robert Sarah,Nicolas Diat

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By: Robert Sarah,Nicolas Diat

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The Power of Silence

Against the Dictatorship of Noise

By: Robert Cardinal Sarah,Nicolas Diat

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Against the Dictatorship of Noise

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Le grand bonheur / The Great Happiness

By: Nicolas Diat

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Le grand bonheur / The Great Happiness

By: Nicolas Diat

Enter a timeless world, a forbidden city, an ideal society. For a year, we will follow the Benedictines of Fontgombault Abbey in France, from the farm to the refectory, from art workshops to the classrooms, from the infirmary to the hotel, from the printing press to the library, from the church to the cloister, from the sacristy to the scriptorium. This book is an invitation to joy, an invitation to discover the little-known daily lives of monks to help us understand the peace that dwells within them. Their confined existence, which one might imagine to be monotonous, is in reality extraordinarily rich. Transported to Fontgombault by the evocative and delicate writings of author Nicolas Diat, we will no longer be quite the same when we close this book, and exit the doors of the abbey.

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Our Sunday Visitor

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1639661859

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The Ideology of Classicism

Language, History, and Identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus

By: Nicolas Wiater

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The Ideology of Classicism

Language, History, and Identity in Dionysius of Halicarnassus

By: Nicolas Wiater

So far, the critical writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus have mainly attracted interest from historians of ancient linguistics. The Ideology of Classicism proposes a novel approach to Dionysius’ œuvre as a whole by providing the first systematic study of Greek classicism from the perspective of cultural identity. Drawing on cultural anthropology and Social Identity Theory, Wiater explores the world-view bound up with classicist criticism. Only from within this ideological framework can we understand why Greek and Roman intellectuals in Augustan Rome strove to speak and write like Demosthenes, Lysias, and Isocrates. Topics addressed by this study include Dionysius’ view of the classical past; mimesis and the aesthetics of reading; language and identity; Dionysius’ view of the Romans, their power and the role of Greek culture within it; Greek classicism and the contemporary controversy about Roman identity among Roman intellectuals; the self-image as Greek intellectuals in the Roman empire of Dionysius and his addressees; the dialogic design of Dionysius’ essays and how it implements a sense of elitism and distinction; Dionysius’ attitudes towards communities competing with him for leadership in rhetorical education and criticism, such as the Peripatetics and Stoics.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110259117

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God or Nothing

A Conversation on Faith with Nicolas Diat

By: Cardinal Robert Sarah,Nicholas Diat

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God or Nothing

A Conversation on Faith with Nicolas Diat

By: Cardinal Robert Sarah,Nicholas Diat

The idea of putting Magisterial teaching in a beautiful display case while separating it from pastoral practice, which then could evolve along with circumstances, fashions, and passions, is a sort of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology. I therefore solemnly state that the Church in Africa is staunchly opposed to any rebellion against the teaching of Jesus and of the Magisterium. . . . The Church of Africa is committed in the name of the Lord Jesus to keeping unchanged the teaching of God and of the Church." — Robert Cardinal Sarah In this fascinating autobiographical interview, one of the most prominent and outspoken Catholic Cardinals gives witness to his Christian faith and comments on many current controversial issues. The mission of the Church, the joy of the gospel, the “heresy of activism”, and the definition of marriage are among the topics he discusses with wisdom and eloquence. Robert Cardinal Sarah grew up in Guinea, West Africa. Inspired by the missionary priests who made great sacrifices to bring the Faith to their remote village, his parents became Catholics. Robert discerned a call to the priesthood and entered the seminary at a young age, but due to the oppression of the Church by the government of Guinea, he continued his education outside of his homeland. He studied in France and nearby Senegal. Later he obtained a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, followed by a licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum of Jerusalem. At the age of thirty-four he became the youngest Bishop in the Catholic Church when John Paul II appointed him the Archbishop of Conakry, Guinea, in 1979. His predecessor had been imprisoned by the Communist government for several years, and when Archbishop Sarah was targeted for assassination John Paul II called him to Rome to be Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. In 2010 Pope Benedict XVI named him Cardinal and appointed him Prefect of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum. Pope Francis made him Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in 2014.

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Ignatius Press

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1621640507

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Le grand bonheur / The Great Happiness

By: Nicolas Diat

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La Force du silence

By: Robert Sarah,Nicolas Diat

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La Force du silence

By: Robert Sarah,Nicolas Diat

Dans une époque de plus en plus bruyante, alors que la technique et les biens matériels ne cessent d’étendre leur emprise, c’est certainement une gageure que de vouloir écrire un livre consacré au silence. Pourtant, le monde émet tant de bruits que la recherche de quelques gouttes de silence n’en devient que plus nécessaire. Pour le cardinal Robert Sarah, à force de repousser le divin, l’homme moderne se retrouve dans un grand silence, une épreuve angoissante et oppressante. Le cardinal veut rappeler que la vie est une relation silencieuse entre le plus intime de l’homme et Dieu. Le silence est indispensable pour l’écoute de la musique de Dieu : la prière naît du silence et y revient sans cesse plus profondément. Dans cet entretien avec Nicolas Diat, le cardinal s’interroge : les hommes qui ne connaissent pas le silence peuvent-ils jamais atteindre la vérité, la beauté et l’amour ? La réponse est sans appel : tout ce qui est grand et créateur est formé de silence. Dieu est silence. Après le succès international de Dieu ou rien, traduit dans quatorze langues, le cardinal Robert Sarah entreprend de redonner au silence ses lettres de noblesse. LE TEXTE EST SUIVI D’UN ENTRETIEN EXCEPTIONNEL AVEC DOM DYSMAS DE LASSUS, PRIEUR À LA GRANDE CHARTREUSE ET MINISTRE GÉNÉRAL DE L’ORDRE DES CHARTREUX Né en juin 1945, le cardinal Robert Sarah est une des figures les plus importantes du monde catholique d’aujourd’hui – il est le numéro trois du Vatican. Spécialiste reconnu de l’Église, écrivain, Nicolas Diat est l’auteur d’un livre de référence sur le pontificat de Benoît XVI, L’Homme qui ne voulait pas être pape (Albin Michel, 2014). Le cardinal Robert Sarah et Nicolas Diat ont publié chez Fayard en 2015 un premier livre, Dieu ou rien. Entretien sur la foi. Né en mars 1956, dom Dysmas de Lassus est prieur au monastère de la Grande Chartreuse, et ministre général de l’ordre des Chartreux, fondé par saint Bruno en 1084. Entré à la Grande Chartreuse à l’âge de vingt ans, il en fut maître des novices pendant de nombreuses années. Selon la tradition, le prieur ne sort jamais du désert de la Chartreuse.

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Fayard

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2213702640

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Humilitas

La naissance des hommes seuls

By: Nicolas Diat

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Humilitas

La naissance des hommes seuls

By: Nicolas Diat

« Quel sens y a-t-il à voyager aujourd’hui au sein des monastères coptes ? Ces lieux dont les premiers murs furent érigés au IVe siècle sont l’héritage incessible d’Antoine, de Pacôme, de Macaire, des premiers ermites et de la longue tradition monastique égyptienne. » « Chaque jour, les moines demandent à saint Antoine d’intercéder pour eux ; dans leurs larges habits noirs, ces hommes manifestent sans ostentation l’abandon contemplatif de réalités séculières. » « Ils portent des coiffes – deux pièces de tissu assemblées par une couture – sur lesquelles sont brodées douze croix qui symbolisent les apôtres, une treizième faisant référence au Christ. » « J’ai commencé mon “Grand Tour” copte par deux monastères près de la mer Rouge. Deir Mar Antonios est le lieu de la première onction. Chacun sait qu’il pérégrine sur une terre où la vie chrétienne aurait pu prendre un autre visage si Antoine n’avait pas fondé dans une grotte sa première communauté. Deir Mar Boulos, dans les montagnes, est plus aride. Dans ces murs jaune et or, les moines sont les héritiers de Paul l’Anachorète. » « Mon premier privilège fut de passer les portes de Deir Abu Makar. Dans le monastère refondé par le père Matta el-Maskîne, j’ai dialogué avec son fils spirituel, le père Wadid. Je n’oublierai jamais cet homme courbé, plein de souvenirs lavés par la sagesse. Ses mots venaient du ciel. Ai-je un jour rencontré un homme qui savait si bien la valeur du silence ? » Nicolas Diat est écrivain et éditeur. Il est l’auteur d’un livre de référence sur le pontificat de Benoît XVI, L’homme qui ne voulait pas être pape (Albin Michel, 2014 ; Pluriel, 2018), d’Un temps pour mourir (Fayard, 2018 ; Pluriel, 2019 ; Prix du cardinal Lustiger, Grand Prix de l’Académie française), du Grand Bonheur (Fayard, 2020 ; Pluriel, 2022) et de Ce qui manque à un clochard (Robert Laffont, 2021 ; Pocket, 2023 ; Prix Georges Brassens). Il a coécrit, avec le cardinal Robert Sarah, Dieu ou rien (Fayard, 2015 ; Pluriel, 2016), La Force du silence (Fayard, 2016 ; Pluriel, 2017 ; Prix Spiritualités du Centre méditerranéen de littérature) et Le soir approche et déjà le jour baisse (Fayard, 2019 ; Pluriel, 2020), ainsi que, avec le cardinal François Bustillo et Mgr Edgar Peña Parra, Le coeur ne se divise pas (Fayard, 2023 ; Pluriel, 2025). Ses livres, qui ont été des succès de librairie, ont reçu un accueil critique formidable et sont traduits dans de nombreux pays.

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2213729727

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A Time to Die

A Time to Die

The Day Is Now Far Spent

The Day Is Now Far Spent

The Power of Silence

The Power of Silence

A Time to Die

A Time to Die

The Day Is Now Far Spent

The Day Is Now Far Spent

The Power of Silence

The Power of Silence

Le grand bonheur / The Great Happiness

Le grand bonheur / The Great Happiness

The Ideology of Classicism

The Ideology of Classicism

God or Nothing

God or Nothing

Le grand bonheur / The Great Happiness

Le grand bonheur / The Great Happiness

La Force du silence

La Force du silence

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Humilitas

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