The Waters of Siloe
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The Waters of Siloe

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The Waters of Siloe

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From the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, this book looks at an order of Catholic monks dating back to eleventh-century France. "The word 'Trappist' has become synonymous with 'ascetic' and definitely indicates a monk who leads a very hard life. But... Penance and asceticism are not ends in themselves. If monks never succeeded in being more than pious athletes, they do not fulfill their purpose in the Church. If you want to understand why the monks lead the life they do, you will have to ask, first of all, What is their aim?" In his bestselling memoir, The Seven Storey Mountain, Catholic poet, theologian, and mystic Thomas Merton chronicled his journey to becoming a Cistercian monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky. In The Waters of Siloe, he provides an enlightening account of the Cistercian Order, better known as the Trappists. With clarity and wisdom, Merton explores the history of the Cistercian Order from its founding in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the AbbĂ© de RancĂ©, which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism and its surprising resurgence in America and elsewhere. "Only Thomas Merton could have written single-handed this history of Trappist monks, for it is a work of diverse gifts and skill, an ardent collaboration of scholar and story-teller, priest and poet." — The New York Times

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Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
1979
ISBN
9780547563954

Part One

I

Monasticism; St. Benedict; The Cistercians

A MONK is a man who has given up everything in order to possess everything. He is one who has abandoned desire in order to achieve the highest fulfilment of all desire. He has renounced his liberty in order to become free. He goes to war because he has found a kind of war that is peace.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. The Daily Life of a Cistercian Monk in Our Time
  7. Prologue
  8. Note on the Function of a Contemplative Order
  9. Part One
  10. Monasticism; St. Benedict; The Cistercians
  11. De Rance and La Trappe
  12. The Dispersal; First Trappists in America
  13. Foundations in Kentucky and Illinois
  14. The Trappists in Nova Scotia; Petit Clairvaux
  15. The Foundation of Gethsemani Abbey
  16. Photos
  17. Gethsemani in the Nineteenth Century; OtherAmerican Foundations
  18. Reunion of the Cistercian Congregations; New Growth; Gethsemani under Dom Edmond Obrecht
  19. Eight American Foundations
  20. A Contemplative Order in Two World Wars
  21. The Rising Tide: New Foundations in Georgia, Utah, and New Mexico; The Last Mass at Yang Kia Ping
  22. Part Two
  23. Cistercian Life in the Twelfth Century
  24. The Cistercian Character and Sanctity
  25. Paradisus Claustralis
  26. Bibliography
  27. Glossary of Some Monastic Terms
  28. Index
  29. About the Author
  30. Footnotes