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Centered On Christ: A Guide to Monastic Profession(5 Monastic Wisdom Series)


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"Hidden in every human heart is a monk." For men and women in the cloister and in the world, Augustine Roberts explores the inner meaning of the conversatio morum, conversion of life, that underlies Benedictine life. The first, Spanish, edition of this book drew heavily on novitiate notes by Thomas Merton; in this third, completely revised edition, the author takes into account two new factors 'Vita Consecrata, Pope John Paul II's 1996 Apostolic Exhortation, and the postmodern secularization which has deeply affected Christians. By clarifying various aspects of monastic living, Augustine Roberts explains how the signs of monastic living and commitments of monastic profession relate to the "evangelical counsels," Jesus's invitation to leave al things and follow him.

Table of Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword   xiii
     by Bernardo Olivera, OCSO
Preface   xv
Abbreviations xxi
     CHAPTER ONE
Entering the Monastery   1
     1. Following Jesus   1
        Gospel Life   1
        Consequences for Today   6
     2. Profession through the Centuries   8
        Beginnings: 50–450   8
        Middle Ages: 450–1450   10
        New Understanding   13
        Promises of Profession according to Saint Benedict   16
        For Further Reflection   17
     CHAPTER TWO
Roots of Monastic Life   20
     1. Apostolic Life   21
        Christ’s Way of Life   22
        Vocabulary of Discipleship   23
        From the Desert to St. Benedict   27
        Shared Conversatio   28
     2. What Is Monastic Life?   32
        Desert Fathers   34
        John Cassian   35
        Rule of St. Benedict   37 
     3. Evangelical Counsels?   40
        Vatican II and Afterwards   40
        An Umbrella Term   42
        For Further Reflection   45
     CHAPTER THREE
Commitments of Conversatio   47
     1. Overview   47
     2. Basic Observances   50
        Withdrawal from Society   53
        Life of Prayer   59
        Gospel Austerity   69
        Common Life   76
        Monastic Work   80
     3. Lack of Fidelity   86
        Abandonment of Monastic Life   86
        Expressions of Defective Conversion   87
     4. The Spirit of Continual Conversion   88
        Principal Factor in Monastic Life   90
        Passover to the Father   91
        Leaving the World   93
        Purity of Heart   95
        Transformation in Christ   97
        For Further Reflection   99
     CHAPTER FOUR
Consecrated Chastity   102
     1. Meaning of Consecrated Chastity   102
         Poverty, Chastity, Obedience   102
        Central Element of Religious Profession   104
        Note on Terminology   105
     2. Basic Requirements   108
        State of Consecrated Virginity   108
        Cultivation of Chastity   109
        Human Sexuality   111
     3. Christ and Chastity   114 
     4. Other Levels of Sexuality   118
        Chastity and Sensuality   118
        Chastity and Eros   119
        Chastity and Friendship   122
        Practical Summary   126
     5. Fruits of Consecrated Virginity   128
        Sponsa Christi 128 Prayer   129
        Affective Maturity   131
        Virginity and Monastic Life   132
        For Further Reflection   134
     CHAPTER FIVE
Benedictine Poverty   136
     1. Types of Religious Poverty   137
        Benedictine Poverty   138
        Personal Poverty   142
        Communal Poverty   143
     2. Responsibilities   144
        Personal Poverty and Detachment   144
        Common Life and Productive Work   146
        Responsibility for Communal Poverty   153
     3. Toward a Mature Poverty   156
        Immature Poverty   156
        Growth in the Life of Poverty   157
        For Further Reflection  160
    CHAPTER SIX
Monastic Obedience   162
     1. Christian Obedience   162
        Human Intermediaries   162
        Obedience in Christ   165
     2. A Special Vow 169
        God’s Redemptive Plan   169
        Church Authority   172 
     3. Obedience and Fidelity   176
        Exterior Commitments   176
        Spirit of Monastic Obedience   179
        Reciprocal Need   182
        The Word of Christ   184
     4. Obedience, Weak and Strong   185
        Breaking Communion   186
        Vow, Virtue, and Counsel   189
        How Do We Grow in Obedience?   192
     5. Dialogued Obedience   195
        Through Dialogue to Obedience   196
        Qualities of Dialogue   198
        Practical Summary   199
        For Further Reflection   201
        CHAPTER SEVEN
Cenobitic Stability   203
     1. Commitment to Stability   204
        Different Interpretations   205
        Benedictine Stability   206
        Lack of Stability   207
     2. Special Situations   208
        Foundations   208
        Obedience   210
        Health   210
        Greater Spiritual Good   211
     3. The Spirit of Stability   215
        Monastic Stability According to the Desert Fathers   216
        Cenobitic Stability among the First Cistercians   218
        Doctrinal Reflections   222
     4. Person and Community   226
         Which Comes First?   226
        Spirituality of Communion   230 
     5. Love of the Order   233
        What Is Love of One’s Order?   234
        Stability and Structural Change   238
        Stability and Faith   240
        For Further Reflection   242
     CHAPTER EIGHT
Spirituality and Profession   243
     1. Spiritual Methods   244
     2. Features of a Triple Way   247
        Spiritual Art 248
        Anthropology of the Three Methods   251
     3. A Christic Milieu   258
     4. Observance, Prayer, Humility   262
        Monastic Observance   262
        Lectio Divina   265
        Humility   268
        Practical Consequences   276
        Vows and the Following of Christ   281
     5. Profession “According to the Rule of St. Benedict”   283
        Primacy of Conversatio   284
        Resolving a Dilemma   285
        For Further Reflection   288
   CHAPTER NINE
Beyond the Profession Ceremony   290
   1. Summing Up   290
        What Profession Means   290
        Conversatio   294
     2. A Life of Love   296
        Promise, Profession, and Intention   296
        Consecration   300
        Experiencing Jesus   303
        Person, Community, and Profession   308 
     3. Into the Beyond   311
        Life-Giving Spirit   311
        Guiding the Human Family   314
        For Further Reflection   316
     APPENDIX
Diagrams on the Dynamics of Monastic Profession   317
Diagram I:   Conversatio morum: Fidelity to Monastic Life   317
Diagram II:   Methods in Benedictine Spirituality   318
Diagram III:  Monastic Profession and Beyond   319
Thematic Index   320

About the Author :
Augustine Roberts, OCSO, has been a Trappist monk since the early 1950s. After serving as abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, he became Procurator General of the Trappist Order. In the 1960s he was one of the founders of the first abbey of his Order in South America, later serving as its abbot. Today he is a much sought-after guide, called to help many communities in the delicate task of adapting the perennial monastic way of life to the needs of the twenty-first century. Bernardo Olivera, OCSO, is abbot of Nuestra Senora de los Angeles in Azul, Argentina. He served as Abbot General of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance from 1990 to 2008. Dom Bernardo is author of How Far to Follow? The Martyrs of Atlas (Cistercian Publications), as well as many books published in South America.

Review :
This book ought to be read by many, not only those within monastic communities. The hope might be that in time the wider audience of the Church could come to see the book's unique contribution to the spiritual life of conformity, conversion, and transformation that each Christian is called to achieve with Christ and by his grace.Cistercian Studies Quarterly


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  • ISBN-13: 9780879070748
  • Publisher: Liturgical Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Liturgical Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 344
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Guide to Monastic Profession
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0879070749
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: 5 Monastic Wisdom Series
  • Weight: 458 gr


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