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Way of the Heart

The Spiritual Experience of André Louf

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Charles Wright

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Award-winning French author shares the biography and spiritual journey of Cistercian abbot Dom André Louf.Based on a wide variety of interviews, printed sources, and Dom André Louf’s spiritual journal, The Way of the Heart narrates Louf’s spiritual journey from his childhood in Flanders through his becoming a monk in a Cistercian monastery, his ten years of retirement as a hermit in a Benedictine monastery in the south of France, and his death. Throughout his life he periodically struggled with conflicting vocational desires—sometimes wishing to serve as a pastor, academic, abbot, or to immerse himself in eremitic contemplation. That struggle is the leading thread through this biography, which portrays a man whose immense gifts pulled him in many directions, while always endeavoring to submit himself to God’s will.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-22
Mått140 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt709 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMonastic Wisdom Series
Antal sidor348
FörlagLiturgical Press
ISBN9780879073350
ÖversättareKerns OCSO, Brian, Kerns, Brian, OCSO, Kerns, Brian

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Charles Wright is a French writer, journalist, and a former Jesuit novice. His earlier book, Le Chemin des Estives, narrates his journey through the Massif Central, in south-central France. That book won the fourth annual Prix de la liberté intérieure in 2021.Brian Kerns, OCSO, is a monk at the Abbey of the Genesee in upper New York state. He spent five years at Genesee’s foundation of Novo Mundo in Parana, Brazil. For many years he worked in the libraries of Genesee and Novo Mundo. He has translated two previous works with Cistercian Publications: Dom Gabriel Sortais, an Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times (2006), and the six volumes of Gregory the Great’s Moral Reflections on the Book of Job (2014–2017).

ContentsTranslator’s Preface xiIntroduction xiiiChapter 1 Infancy of a Contemplative 1Chapter 2 “All Is done, and All Begins” 21Chapter 3 The Roman Escape 37Chapter 4 Discovering the Internal Man 47Chapter 5 The Grace of Collectanea 57Chapter 6 A Solitary Soul 67Chapter 7 Habemus Abbatem 85Chapter 8 A Flemish Staretz 99Chapter 9 The Exegete of Aggiornamento 107Chapter 10 The Book of Experience 125Chapter 11 Spiritual Accompaniment 143Chapter 12 A Carthusian Heart 169Chapter 13 A Hesychast Abbot 187Chapter 14 Toward the One Undivided Church 205Chapter 15 Oracle of the Trappist Order 225 Chapter 16 Renunciation 247Chapter 17 The Hermit of Saint-Lioba 261Epilogue 285Sources 295General Bibliography 309Notes of Gratitude 315

"This eminently readable portrait presents Dom André Louf (1929—2010), a loving spiritual director, distinguished scholar, author, and translator, head of Collectanea Cisterciensia, and for thirty-five years the abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Mont des Cats. The winds of change were blowing through the Church during this period and Louf was a leader in the approach to the Eastern Orthodox and in the modernization of the Trappist order following Vatican II. Yet all his life Dom André longed for a life of solitude and prayer, and he spent the last twelve years his life in a tiny hermitage attached to the monastery of Sainte-Lioba in Simiane. Thanks to the author’s abundant use of extracts from Louf’s personal journal, the reader walks this path with Dom André in a small way, to his own eternal benefit."Jean Truax, Independent scholar