"Be solicitous only to pour out tears abundantly, and leave to God the care of drying them up."

On the Sanctity and Duties of the Monastic State by the Abbé ArmandJean de Rancé was originally published in Paris in 1683. Although Abbé de Rancé, the founder of the Trappists, originally wrote for his monks, many laity of 17th c. France enthusiastically adopted much of his spirituality, and to wonderful effect. With asceticism reappearing now as a corrective to our selfindulgence and softness, his incisive book is a badly needed, bracing corrective for the Christians of our time. from the description of Back to Asceticism: the Trappist Option, trans. Lee Gilbert.

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