The step towards the ultimate goal of life always requires a very high act of faith and abandonment that overcomes all despair, and one never crosses the threshold of existence without the tears of the original struggle for survival.
Category Archives: CISTERCIAN PERSONALITIES
My point is simply to show the marvelous and providential, and you might say improbable intersection of lives, in this case, Norbert Sauvage of Belgium, Elena Gullini of Rome, and Maria Sagheddu of Dorgali, an intersection that shaped the monastic conscience of each and even shaped their particular form of Cistercian holiness.
After over eight hundred years of Cistercian monasticism, the authentic Cistercian patrimony had to be rediscovered only in the middle of the twentieth century . . . and it is Le Bail and the monks of Scourmont we have to thank for that retrieval of sources.