Identifier: benedictinesofca00shep (find matches)
Title: The Benedictines of Caldey Island (formerly of Painsthorpe, York) : containing the history, purpose, method, and summary of the rule of the Benedictines of the Isle of Caldey, S. Wales
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Shepherd, William Richard, 1860-
Subjects: Caldey Island (Abbey : Caldey Island, Wales) Benedictines Monasticism and religious orders
Publisher: Isle of Caldey : The Abbey
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ts that need be here J> 39 & tnstorg of tbe Community recorded in the life at Painsthorpe. The Community foundevery happiness in the quiet tenor of its ordered, uneventfullife, and there was no desire to pass beyond the Enclosuresave when real necessity required. The Abbot was fullyoccupied in the direction of the Community, and it was butseldom that he spoke or preached outside the Monastery, onlyoccasionally ministering in the parish church, and in one ortwo others. The Community claimed him, and to it hedevoted himself. Applications for admission to the Community increasedin number, but the narrow limits of the Monastery restrainedits growth. That was well, for it necessitated the carefulscrutiny of those who had already been admitted to theNoviciate, as well as of those who wished to become Novices.And so from time to time those who showed signs of a genuinevocation were sifted from those who were less clearly called tothe Religious Life in this Community. Jt> 40 & V
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