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...world, but their days are filled with fervent prayers for it. Graham seems to mistake this act of love for a sign of suicidal despair; he seems to understand only one side of the Trappist paradox of suffering and joy. If Graham interprets Merton's advice as Cistercian propaganda for a Marxist kind of Utopia, it is perhaps because in the Benedictine Order he has become overly enamoured with a concept of the democratic monk...
...dangerous oversimplification. He disapprovingly quotes some of Merton's advice to his readers-"Do everything you can to avoid the amusements and the noise and the business of men ... do not read their newspapers ... do not bother with their unearthly songs." In short-Graham summarizes-"become a Trappist-Cistercian monk while living in the world...
...Fred," as he was called around Lawrence, was always a restless boy. A second-string football player, he did poorly in school, but he memorized all kinds of scientific treatises at home. He became silent, sullen and stubborn. At 16, Fred ran away and became a novice in a Cistercian monastery in Rhode Island. "He was a different boy when he came out," says Demara Sr. He tried two more religious orders, but did not stay...
Corks in a Bottle. The Cistercian monastery of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, at Coolspring, is the ninth Trappist community in the U.S., the newest in full operation, and follows the full medieval rule. Last week, on the 950 acres surrounding the mansion which was once the scene of glittering Southern balls, 32 Trappists were busily preparing for their silent life of work, prayer and meditation. Since last July, they have added a dormitory, dining hall, wing for offices and kitchen. The old kitchen building has been turned into a simple chapel, with highly polished stalls. "The only trouble...
...Hales and 20s. from a John Mylner, had broken into Hugh Smyth's place and raped Joan again, had gone to Leicestershire and there stolen "seven cows, two calves, a cart worth ?4, and 335 sheep." Sir Thomas, it appeared from the records, had also twice looted the Cistercian Abbey of Blessed Mary at Coombe and at least twice escaped from jail...