Download or read book Thoughts and Reflections of Armand Jean de Ranc Abbot of la Trappe written by Armand-Jean de Rancé and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armand-Jean de Rancé (1626–1700), the reforming abbot of la Trappe, was a prolific writer in a verbose age. Until he was in his thirties, he enjoyed the life of a young man about town, but then, after experiencing a dramatic conversion, he left the world forever for the silence and austerity of la Trappe. To read all that he wrote when he governed the abbey would take a great deal of time, but in 1703, three years after Rancé’s death, Jacques Marsollier, archdeacon of Uzèz and one of Rancé’s biographers, published a slender volume of selected Pensées et Reflexions, “Thoughts and Reflections,” by Rancé, which presents the essential ideas of the abbot in a condensed form. There are 259 Pensées, ranging in length from a couple of lines to about thirty. They are best dipped into, not read consecutively, for some will have more impact than others depending on the reader, the time, and the place.
Download or read book A Literary and Biographical History written by Joseph Gillow and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thoughts and Reflections of Armand Jean de Ranc Abbot of la Trappe written by Armand-Jean de Rancé and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armand-Jean de Rancé (1626–1700), the reforming abbot of la Trappe, was a prolific writer in a verbose age. Until he was in his thirties, he enjoyed the life of a young man about town, but then, after experiencing a dramatic conversion, he left the world forever for the silence and austerity of la Trappe. To read all that he wrote when he governed the abbey would take a great deal of time, but in 1703, three years after Rancé’s death, Jacques Marsollier, archdeacon of Uzèz and one of Rancé’s biographers, published a slender volume of selected Pensées et Reflexions, “Thoughts and Reflections,” by Rancé, which presents the essential ideas of the abbot in a condensed form. There are 259 Pensées, ranging in length from a couple of lines to about thirty. They are best dipped into, not read consecutively, for some will have more impact than others depending on the reader, the time, and the place.
Download or read book Armand Jean de Ranc Abbot of La Trappe written by A. J. Krailsheimer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1974 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Armand Jean de Ranc Abbot and Reformer of La Trappe 1641 1682 written by Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Ranc written by David N. Bell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both during his lifetime and afterwards Armand Jean le Bouthiellier, the abbe de Rance, was a controversial figure. Alive, he was extravagantly admired by many, yet had, as one recent biographer observed, 'an unhappy genius for incurring hostility unnecessarily'. Dead, he continued to evoke extreme reactions-he was either loved or loathed. One biographer nicknamed him 'the thundering abbot'; others depicted him in hagiographical panegyrics. The present volume sets Rance against the colorful and extravagant world of seventeenth-century France and corrects both masterly and entertaining caricatures by exploring the world which surrounded and formed this ever fascinating monk: the privileged circles of the ancient regime in which Rance moved from his birth in 1626; and the austere monastic environment he created at la Trappe. 'This is not so much a book about Rance as around Rance, Dr Bell writes. 'I do not expect that it will persuade people who do not like Rance to like him; it may, however, serve to explain why he said and did what he said and did in the way that he said and did.'
Download or read book The Thundering Abbot Armand de Ranc Reformer of La Trappe written by Henri Bremond and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dom Anselme Le Bail written by Dieudonne Dufrasne and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who knew him, above all monks, will find Dom Anselme Le Bail again in these pages with warm gratitude. Those who have not known him will encounter his vital and original character. Both of these will be surprised and come to admire a man and a monk who has integrated a healthy humanism into a concrete ideal of his religious vocation.
Download or read book La Vie de Dom Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rance ABBE Regulier Part 2 1703 written by Jacques Marsollier and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Dom Gabriel Sortais an Amazing Abbot in Turbulent Times written by Guy Marie Oury and published by Cistercian Publications Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nearly fifty years have passed since the dramatic death of Dom Gabriel Sortais during the course of the Second Vatican Council. Much has transpired in the meantime, both inside and outside the Cistercian Order of the strict Observance. As Abbot General, he stamped the Trappist Order in a highly personal way. The form he gave it is still with it today, despite many efforts to modernize further." "Guy Oury has told the story of Dom Gabriel as it unfolds from primary sources, both witnesses and documents. What we have here is certainly the most comprehensive life of Dom Gabriel Sortais available in English."--BOOK JACKET.
