Founded 900 years ago by St.
It is also an awesome source of inspiration in the art of contemplation and prayer..
Halfway to Heaven is still the most comprehensive book ever written about the Carthusians.
In this updated edition of a classic book, which includes new material, Robin Bruce Lockhart remedies the gap in our knowledge--without destroying the mystery of the order.
Indeed because they shut themselves away from the world and shun all publicity, little is known about these monks, even among other religious orders.
There is a Carthusian motto: \'To make saints, not to publicise them\'.
As the only order \'never to have been reformed because never deformed\', the Carthusians have been described as \'the most precious jewel in the Church\'s crown\'.
Living alone and in silence in almost perpetual prayer, the monks are the spiritual heirs to the early Christians, the Desert Fathers.
Bruno, the Carthusians are the most completely enclosed religious order in the Catholic Church.
Founded 900 years ago by St
