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1963 Cistercian history; 12th and 13th centuries. Why and how of collapse.
1963 Early Cistercian history; Stephen of Lexington (saint or oddball?).
1963 Early Cistercian history; the college of St. Bernard.Pro and Con.
1963 Early Cistercian saints. Inquisition attitudes.
1963/01 Russian monks.
1963/01 St. Bernard.
1963/01/01 Introduction of novice brothers to classes.
1963/01/05 St. Bernard.
1963/01/07 Monastic spirituality.
1963/01/07 The vows. Remarks on renewal problems.
1963/01/13 Russian monks; the startzi. Leonid, Marcarius, Gogal, Ambrose.
1963/01/14 The vows; religious profession.
1963/01/16 Monastic spirituality; life as a journey.
1963/01/29 The vows; idea of community.
1963/01/30 Monastic spirituality; the way.
1963/02/02 St. Bernard, Mariology. What it means to be loved by Mary.
1963/02/03 Background to St. Benedict's rule; early monasticism, St. Paulinus of Nola.
1963/02/04 Vows. Community life; respect; unity of purpose.
1963/02/06 Monastic spirituality, it's meaning.
1963/02/09 St. Bernard; Cistercian theology of love.
1963/02/11 Vows; real meaning of vows.
1963/02/13 The spiritual combat; illusions of self.
1963/02/16 Bernard; three types of love. (Attraction, reconcilliation, fullfillment).
1963/02/17 Background of Rule: St. Martin of Tours and St. Anthony.
1963/02/18 Vows; positive view of vows.
1963/02/20 Monastic spirituality; true and false self in St. Paul.
1963/02/23 St. Bernard; man made in image of God; thirst for living water.
1963/02/23 Vows: the mutual obligations involved.
1963/02/24 Background of rule; Desert Fathers as sources.
1963/03/02 St. Bernard: Guigo the Carthusian's meditations on truth as a weapon.
1963/03/03 Desert Fathers. Showing Christ to the world.
1963/03/04 Vows: different acts of will.
1963/03/06 Imitating God according to St. Thomas; likeness versus imitation.
1963/03/09 St. Bernard: Guigo the Carthusian and truth, happiness.
1963/03/11 Vows: certainty in regard to making vows.
1963/03/13 St. Thomas; goodness of all beings.
1963/03/16 Monastic spirituality; love overcoming evil.
1963/03/17 Rule: sharing joys and sorrows and being real with our brothers.
1963/03/20 St. Thomas; thoughts on the justice of God.
1963/03/23 Guigo, the Carthusian: on love.
1963/03/24 Desert fathers; prayer according to John of Lycopolis; Egyptian Cenobium.
1963/03/27 St. Thomas; the goodness of God and forgiveness of others and penance. Refers to Adolf Eichmann trial and Arendt's work.
1963/03/30 Guigo on celebrating the sabbath; fear and desire versus love and freedom.
1963/04/01 Vows: effects of will, importance of consent; place of hope in life.
1963/04/03 St. Thomas: importance of every created thing in God's eye.
1963/04/06 Palm Sunday liturgy; Easter homily of Bl. Guerric of Igny.
1963/04/07 Easter homily of Blessed Guerric.
1963/04/08 Explanation of Holy Thursday.
1963/04/10 Explanation of Good Friday. Section on mental illness.
1963/04/17 Vows; fidelity on the psychological and theological plane.
1963/04/20 St. Bernard; his letter to Guigo the Carthusian.
1963/04/21 Self assertion and Cassian - conference 14. (Christian philosophy).
1963/04/22 Some background to reading the bible.
1963/04/24 Some points on Father Alphonse and comments on visitation and study.
1963/04/27 Purity and degrees of love according to Bernard and William of Thierry.
1963/04/27 Self assertion and Cassian - conference 14. (Christian philosophy) continued.
1963/04/28 Cassian and monastic theology - active life and mobility of mind.
1963/04/29 Bible - the name of Yahweh.
1963/05/04 St. Bernard on perfect love.
1963/05/06 Bible - Yahwism in the Old Testament.
1963/05/08 Vows; poverty.
1963/05/11 St. Bernard: purity of heart.
1963/05/12 Cassian 3 - renunciation which leads to contemplation.
1963/05/13 Yahwism - the desert ideal.
1963/05/15 Poverty according to the Cistercian ideal.
1963/05/18 St. Bernard: letter II on love being the law of God.
1963/05/19 Cassian on prayer.
1963/05/23 Cassian on the humanity of Christ in prayer.
1963/05/24 Poverty according to the Cistercians - place of brothers in our life.
1963/05/25 St. Bernard's "De Diligendo Deo" - on the love of God.
1963/05/29 Simplicity of early Cistercians. Poverty in life of prayer and common life.
1963/06/02 Pentecost and Holy Spirit. Prayer, the person of Christ. St. Pachomius.
1963/06/15 St. Bernard's "De Diligendo Deo" dignitas, sirentra and virtus.
1963/06/16 Bourges cathedral and its stained glass windows. St. Pachomius.
1963/06/22 St. Bernard's "De Diligendo Deo" - reasons for loving God.
1963/06/23 St. Pachomius - danger of neglect in monastic life.
1963/06/24 St. Anselm and the ontological argument for God.
1963/06/26 Poverty in work.
1963/06/30 St.Pachomius - the monk and the world.
1963/07/06 Discussion of the Yogi.
1963/07/10 Poverty in clothes and food.
1963/07/13 St. Bernard on the love of God. Signs.
1963/07/14 St.Pachomius - the monk, the world and last judgement.
1963/07/16 St. Anselm.
1963/07/20 St. Bernard on the love of God - God's grace in man.
1963/07/21 St.Pachomius and cenobitism.
1963/07/24 Summing up of the essence of Christian life - some aspects of poverty.
1963/07/27 Grace.
1963/07/28 World affairs. Explanation of a picture of Pope John. St.Pachomius.
1963/07/31 Poverty in regards to culture and exceptions in monastic life.
1963/08/03 Continuation of the discussion of St. John of the Cross.
1963/08/11 Discussion of some of Dom Adrien Nocent's points. Monasticism of Pachomius.
1963/08/15 Mary's message from the angel. Grace. Heaven according to St. Anselm.
1963/08/18 St. Pachomius and the Shenoute
1963/08/25 Natural experience of God - St. Basil.
1963/08/26 St. Bernard.
1963/08/28 Vow of stability - perseverance.
1963/08/31 St. Bernard's degrees of love.
1963/09/04 Vow of stability.
1963/09/08 History of the examination of conscience and its use in monastic life.
1963/09/28 Rivalry between Citeaux and Cluny.
1963/09/29 Angels, St. Basil and his rule.
1963/10/05 Discussion of St. Bernard's letter to his nephew Robert.
1963/10/09 Discussion of morning Gospel - stability and love in community.
1963/10/12 Letter of St. Bernard to Robert. Peter the Venerable's letter of defence.
1963/10/13 Discussion: apostolate of the contemplative. Suenen's book Nun in the World
1963/10/16 Theology of the vow of stability. Some aspects of a foundation.
1963/10/19 Nuclear test ban. Peter the Venerable's reply concerning Benedictine life.
1963/10/20 Race situation. St. Basil, ascetical discourse.
1963/10/23 Vow of stability.
1963/10/26 Points concerning feud between Cistercians and Benedictines of the 12th C.
1963/10/27 Beards. Refectory reading. Liturgy. Peace, chastity and prayer.
1963/10/30 Dom De Rance and his conversion.
1963/11/03 Palladius of Galatia, Lausiac History, and the Syriac desert fathers. De Rance and Mabillon.
1963/11/06 Discussion of a chant week in a daughter house. Vow of stability.
1963/11/09 Current events - Vietnam. St. Berndard's apologia for Cistercians.
1963/11/17 Dom Gabriel. St. Jerome and a letter against vigilantius.
1963/11/21 Feast of the Presentation - oriental tenents.
1963/11/23 President's death. St. Bernard's apologia.
1963/11/24 Peter of Celles and monastic silence.
1963/11/27 Vow of stability. Cases of sickness or greater spiritual good.
1963/12/01 St. Emilie Rodat of France. St. Jerome.
1963/12/04 Silence and making signs. The interior word behind speech.
1963/12/07 Vow of stability.
1963/12/08 St. Anselm's letter on stability. Selections from Mahalia Jackson.
1963/12/11 Some points on silence. Advent thoughts. Sins against stability.
1963/12/14 Religious Silence.
1963/12/16 Liturgical schema of the Vatican council.
1963/12/18 Continuation of the liturgy schema explanation.
1963/12/20 Liturgical constitution of the Vatican council.
1963/12/22 Communications schema of Vatican Council. St.Anselm's idea of stability.
1963/12/26 Part of a record on the Shakers. "The singing nun."
1963/12/28 Some points about the new directory. Xenitera.
1963/12/29 St. Melanie of Jerusalem. New directory and its treatment of stability.


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