Holy Wisdom: Instructions on the Spiritual Life, Mortification, and Prayer and community life becomes the

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allowing contemporary readers to encounter his spiritual theology without distraction or distortion

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Holy Wisdom: Instructions on the Spiritual Life, Mortification, and Prayer and community life becomes theDrawn from the English Benedictine tradition in exile and shaped by the wisdom of the Desert Fathers, the mysticism of Dionysius, and the spiritual clarity of St. Teresa and the Cloud of Unknowing, this volume presents one of the most profound guides to the interior life ever composed in the English tongue. Venerable Father Augustine Baker (15751641), a Welsh monk of the English Benedictine Congregation, composed these treatises for the instruction of