In an age full of competing spiritualities, people are entitled to good spiritual instruction in the mainstream of Catholic teaching. Many great books are no longer available, or only in unsuitable formats, lost within long series of scholarly editions or in unreadable translations. The aim of this new series is to bring these great classics, many of which have been neglected in recent years, back into the public domain for use by today’s Catholics.
The name "Honeycomb" has been chosen to represent the noble industry of the bee (which can be seen as a type of the Christian scholar, collecting wisdom from Scripture and from the Fathers and Doctors, as a bee collects nectar from many different flowers), and also the sweetness of the Law of the Lord which the Psalmist describes as ‘sweeter than honey from the comb.’
Object: to provide sound spiritual reading for priests, lay people and religious to help them to pray and to grow in love of God and neighbour.
Means: to select, translate and edit suitable writings from all periods of the Church’s history, from both East and West, all in accordance with the doctrinal and moral teaching of the Catholic Church; and to publish these in an attractive and durable format.
Procedure: a panel of editorial advisors chaired by the Series Editor, Fr. Jerome Bertram, will suggest and select suitable texts, which will be submitted for Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur. The books will appear every 4-6 months, starting in Spring 1999 with The Monastic Institutes. Please bookmark this page - each title will be announced here as it is decided.
Advance subscriptions are invited for the five successive titles: the cost is £60 inclusive of p&p in the UK (£75 inclusive of p&p overseas). (The price of each volume after publication will be £14.95.)
The first three titles in the Honeycomb Series are:
The Monastic Institutes by St. John Cassian
Comfort for the Faint-Hearted by Ludovicus Blosius (Louis de Blois)
The Loving Struggle by Juan de Los Angeles.
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