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Dom Gabriel Sortais: An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times(7 Monastic Wisdom Series)

Dom Gabriel Sortais: An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times(7 Monastic Wisdom Series)


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"Dom Gabriel Sortais: An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times" is an engaging biography of one of the most colorful Abbot Generals among the Trappists. Dom Gabriel put his stamp on the order in a very personal way, a form that remains with us today despite his best efforts to bring the order up-to-date. His tragic death during the course of Vatican Two impeded the implementation of his vision for the whole order. Dom Guy Oury, a Benedictine Monk of Solesmes, has written the story with remarkable clarity. As much as possible, Fr. Oury works from the primary sources, which include witnesses and documents from the Abbey of Bellefontaine in France, where he was a monk and later abbot before being elected Abbot General of the order, as well as the archives of the Generalate in Rome. This book offers insight into the lives of the Trappists during the troubled times of World War II and also throughout the changes of Vatican Two.

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS Translator's Note   vii Preface   ix      by Dom Emmanuel Coutant, OCSO Foreword   xi Chapter 1:  At Stanislas School   1 Chapter 2:  The Cistercian Vocation   16 Chapter 3:  On the Brink of Monastic Life   29 Chapter 4:  Novice at Bellefontaine   30 Chapter 5: The Night of Faith   53 Chapter 6:  Monk and Prior   62 Chapter 7:  Abbot at 33   74 Chapter 8:  Bellefontaine and Les Gardes   87 Chapter 9:  War, 1936-40   101 Chapter 10:  Watchtowers and Barbed Wire   120 Chapter 11:  Watchman, What of the Night?   133 Chapter 12:  At the Service of Cistercian Order   151 Chapter 13:  Father and Shepherd   165 Chapter 14:  Postwar Years in the Mauges   182 Chapter 15:  Election of the Abbot General   195 Chapter 16:  Pilgrim All over the World   205 Chapter 17:  Foundations in Mission Lands   222 Chapter 18:  Adapting the Observances   234 Chapter 19:  Studies in the Cistercian Order   244 Chapter 20:  The Father's Teaching   258 Chapter 21:  The Council   270 Chapter 22: Spiritual Childhood   280 Chapter 23: Death of Dom Gabriel   293 Afterword   303      by Lawrence Bourget, OCSO Manuscript and Printed Sources   313 Printed Works by Dom Gabriel Sortais   316 Selected Bibliography   318 Index   324

About the Author :
Fr. Guy Oury, OSB, was asked by Dom Emmanuel Coutant, the Abbot of Bellefontaine, to write the biography of his predecessor, Dom Gabriel Sortais. He was given all the papers in the archives at Bellefontaine that were gathered together following Dom Gabriel's death. There is an admirable objectivity in the present biography, which was ably translated into English by Br. Brian Kerns of the Abbey of the Genesee, near Piffard, New York. The Afterword by Fr. Laurence Bourget of St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, Massachusettes, demonstrates an appreciation by a monk who worked closely with Dom Gabriel Sortais during the last years of his life. Fr. Guy Oury himself died on November 2, 2000, at the age of 71.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780879070076
  • Publisher: Liturgical Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Liturgical Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 7 Monastic Wisdom Series
  • Sub Title: An Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0879070072
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 425 gr


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