Centered on Christ, A Guide to Monastic Profession
From the PrefaceThe past quarter century has been a period of renewal for Benedictines, Cistercians and religious in general. Despite the inevitable stresses and strains involved, it has been a time of grace. There is a renewed emphasis on formation for religious and monastic life in a world undergoing deep changes of many kinds ...This present rewriting goes further - which explains its new subtitle, "A Guide to Monastic Profession" - because the book has developed beyond the nature of a simple introduction. The substance of the work and its approach to monastic life remain fundamentally the same as the original 1977 edition.
August Roberts was born to Episcopal missionaries in 1932 in Nanjing, China. Educated in China and the United States, he became a Catholic while attending Yale University and in 1953 entered the Cistercian (Trappist) community at Spencer, Massachusetts. Sent to a new foundation near Azul, Argentina, in 1962, he served as novice director and then superior until 1983, when he was elected abbot of the Spencer community. After two terms there, he became superior of Scourmont Abbey in Belgium, then secretary to the Abbot General and later, from 1998 to 2002, Procurator General of the Order. Since the end of 2002 he has once again been in Argentina, this time as Azul's abbot.
Cistercian Publications
ISBN 10:0 87907 074 9 (paperback)
323 pages