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Living Wisdom: The Mission and Transmission of Monasticism - Couverture souple

Piccardo OCSO, Cristiana

 
9780879070335: Living Wisdom: The Mission and Transmission of Monasticism
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0879070331 ISBN 13 : 9780879070335
Editeur : Liturgical Press, 2014

Synopsis

Cristiana Piccardo was the long-time abbess of an unusual Cistercian community in Italy. "We have always believed," she writes, "that the monastic charism can be a precious 'talent' offered to our contemporary world, and there are moments in history when what normally remains hidden should come into the light." These words accurately describe both the force behind the story of the Vitorchiano monastic family and the account of it given in Living Wisdom, her reflection on the meaning of that story. Over the course of four decades, the Abbey of Vitorchiano would found no fewer than six new monasteries around the world, from Argentina to Indonesia, and today this vibrant oasis of prayer and Christian living still has some eighty sisters of its own. What is the secret of such success? In a nutshell, we could say that, in the Vitorchiano perspective, the monastery is nothing other than a microcosm of the church and of human society. The book, translated from the Italian, initiates us in a most concrete way into a wisdom that seeks the kingdom of God ardently yet realistically, without ever bypassing the essential human foundations that the life in Christ transforms and elevates but never supplants: hard work, communal striving, friendship, honesty in communication, a sense of humor, and, above all, love--the willingness both to ask for forgiveness and to give it with joy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Cristiana Piccardo was born in Genova, Italy, in 1925, and in 1958 entered a monastery of Trappistine Cistercian nuns not far to the north of Rome, at Vitorchiano. In 1964 Mother Cristiana became the abbess. She left Vitorchiano to be the superior of their Venezuelan foundation from 1991 to 2002 where she currently resides.

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Éditeur
Liturgical Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0879070331
ISBN 13 
9780879070335
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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