Publications of the charterhouse of the Transfiguration

Some booklets are available from the monastery. They are decribed below. Some are viewable and downloadable in PDF format.

To obtain copies of these booklets, please write or call our Skyline Drive Gift shop and Catholic bookstore:

The Equinox Mountain Skyline Gift shop
and Catholic book store:
Mt. Equinox Skyline Drive
1A Saint Bruno Drive
Arlington, Vermont 05250 USA
Phone and Fax: (802) 362-1114

- St Bruno's letter to his friend Raoul, written from the Hermitage of the Tower in Calabria, between 1096 and 1101;

- To His Carthusian Sons, A Letter to the monks of the Grande Chartreuse, France written from Calabria around 1099;

- St. Bruno's Profession of Faith, made a week before his death October 6th. 1101.

• The nature of Carthusian life;
• Carthusian Solitude;
• The penitential life;
• The apostolate of prayer;
• The life of the soul with God.

- Carthusians mark 900th Anniversary of Founder's Dies Natalis, by Cori Fugere Urban;

- Silence and Solitude. Unchanged in 900 years, the austere beauty of the Carthusian way of life...,by Philip F. Lawler.

Architecture of Contemplation: the charterhouse of the Transfiguration, by Robert H Mutrux, as published in: Great New England Churches, The Globe Pequot Press, 1982. (many black & white pictures)

This is the Apostolic constitution UMBRATILEM of our most Holy Father Pope Pius XI approving the statutes of the Carthusian Order, on July 8th 1924.

This booklet exists in PDF format, and you can open it or download it here (788K).

THE SOLITARY LIFE A Letter of Guigo, 5th Prior of the Grande Chartreuse. Written about 1135, in the last days of his priorate, to an unknown friend. Introduced and translated from the Latin by Thomas Merton

This booklet exists in PDF format, and you can open it or download it here (840K).

CAPTIVATED BY HIM WHO IS ONLY LOVE. Message of Pope John Paul II for the Ninth Centenary of Saint Bruno’s death to Reverend Father Marcellin Theeuwes Prior of Chartreuse, Superior General of the Carthusian Order and to all members of the Carthusian family, on May 14. 2001.

This booklet exists in PDF format, and you can open it or download it here (1417K).

CARTHUSIAN SAINTS BY A CARTHUSIAN MONK 2006

This booklet exists in PDF format, and you can open it or download it here (7505K)

THE SILENT SUMMER OF 1944
Carthusian monks in Italy opened their doors, saving many from death camps; their reward: martyrdom.

This booklet exists in PDF format, and you can open it or download it here (1809K).

CARTHUSIAN NUNS In the name of all we remain in the presence of the living God.

This booklet exists in PDF format, and you can download it here (5194K).

The Carthusian Life

A 30-page color printed booklet entitled The Carthusian Life is available for retreatants. With forewords by the bishop of Burlington and the Superior General of the Carthusian Order, it describes succinctly all aspects of the Carthusian way of life, its spirituality, and the vocation. It contains 27 photographs of various areas of and around the monastery.

Download The Carthusian Life in PDF format (Complete)
Download Part I
Download Part II
Download Part III
Download Part IV

(You will need the free Adobe Acrobat reader to open them)