| Author Quoted | Anselm Dimier |
| Title Quoted | La Sombre Trappe. Les legendes et la verite |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1947/08/14 |
| Imprint | Paris : [s.n.]. 1946 |
| Quotation | Anselme Dimier's La Sombre Trappe [Paris, 1946] creates the impression it proposes to want to dispel: that the old school Trappists were very macabre. Perhaps that is the idea of the book: they were gloomy. We Cistercians are joyful. But it can be carried too far. There was plenty of the Cistercian spirit at La Trappe: you can get it from the introduction to [Casimir] Gaillardin's history [Les Trappistes. Paris, 1844]. They were not different from us except in accidentals, but some of the accidentals are important for their repercussions on the interior life. |
| Quotation Source | Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and Writer. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2, 1941-1952.; Edited by Jonathan Montaldo. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 98 |
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