Finding the Treasure
Letters from a Global Monk
Finding the Treasure
Letters from a Global Monk
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Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780879070342
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 01/12/2011
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
Augustine Roberts is a New England Yankee, transplanted by circumstance first to Argentina and then to Rome, from where frequent travel took him to nearly every part of the globe. The historical era into which he was born, so fraught with personal and communal soul-searching, also made him wrestle with all the tensions of the contemporary church and world.
Finding the Treasure tells of Dom Augustine's conversion to the Catholic Church while attending Yale and of his remarkably varied monastic experience during the turbulent years of church renewal following Vatican II. These letters from a global monk will not disappoint anyone fascinated by the paradox of a monk who, rooted by vow to his monastery, becomes a globe-trotter precisely out of deep obedience.
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.
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note ix
First Letter 1
China
Missionaries • Beijing • Departure
Second Letter 19
New England
Valley Falls • Mount Hermon • A Highway in the Heart • New Haven
Third Letter 46
But Where?
Two Concerns • Fruits of Prayer • The Plunge
Fourth Letter 62
First Formation
Postulancy • Novitiate • Father Thomas •
Inner Formation • Profession and Prayer •
Life with the Professed • Theology • Lost and Found
Fifth Letter 103
Expansion
Profession and Ordination • To Rome • Change of Abbots •
End and New Beginning
Sixth Letter 125
Life at Azul
New Circumstances • The Novitiate and Vatican II •
The Heart • Communal Autonomy • The Cistercian Order •
Growth in Prayer
Seventh Letter 154
Called Back
Seeds of Change • Poverty and Wealth • Passages •
Constitutions • Contacts • The Clergy • The Servant •
Africa • What Next?
Eighth Letter 188
Viale Africa
What to Do? • Scourmont • Roman Secretary •
Traveling with Bernardo • Procurator General •
Troubleshooting • Called Once More
Ninth Letter 218
Taken
Kenosis and Integration • Past and Present • “Glory
of Thy People Israel” • Two Popes • Spousal Love
Appendix I 241
Text by Dorothy Roberts
It Took Sixty Years • Deo Gratias
Appendix II 255
Text on Church Unity
Searched for by Unity
Finding the Treasure is aptly named, for this book is a treasure for all who are blessed to read it. In its pages, Fr. Augustine Roberts shares his inspiring journey as a 'global monk.' Through recounting his spiritual struggles and consolations, graces received, accrued wisdom, and heartfelt encounters with friends and confreres, Fr. Roberts reveals a Church and a religious order amidst the changes of Vatican II and its new springtime in the global south. Most importantly, by revealing himself, Fr. Roberts reveals the God he loves and serves.Rev. R. Scott Hurd, author of Forgiveness: A Catholic Approach
