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Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians - Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7 (Paperback)
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Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians - Initiation into the Monastic Tradition 7 (Paperback)
Series: Monastic Wisdom Series, 41
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As master of novices for ten years (1955-1965) at the Cistercian
Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, Thomas Merton was
responsible for the spiritual formation of young men preparing for
monastic profession. In this volume, three related sets of Merton's
conferences on ancient and contemporary documents governing the
lives of the monks are published for the first time: * on the Carta
Caritatis, or Charter of Charity, the foundational document of the
Order of Citeaux * on the Consuetudines, the twelfth-century
collection of customs and regulations of the Order * on the
twentieth-century Constitutions of the Order, the basic rules by
which Merton and his students actually lived at the time These
conferences form an essential part of the overall picture of
Cistercian monastic life that Merton provided as part of his
project of "initiation into the monastic tradition" that is evident
in the broad variety of courses that he put together and taught
over the period of his mastership. As Abbot John Eudes Bamberger,
ocso, himself a former student of Merton, notes in his preface to
this volume, "The texts presented in this present book eventually
gave rise to the Cistercian way of spiritual living that continues
to contribute to the Church's witness in this new millennium. This
publication is a witness to the process of transformation that
ensures the continuity of the Catholic monastic tradition that
witnesses to the God who, as Saint Augustine observed is 'ever old
and ever new.'"
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