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The Tools for Good Works?
Towards a Contemporary Re-evaluation of Monastic Practices

A Symposium at Ampleforth Abbey,
Yorkshire, 28 March 2008

Each file is available to download (where possible) both in '.rtf' format (for most wordprocessors) or in '.pdf' format for which you may need the (free) 'Acrobat Reader':

Br Eric Varden O.C.S.O.(Mount St Bernard) ‘“Let nothing be put before the Work of God”. Why not?’	pdf (233kb)
Abbot Hugh Gilbert (Pluscarden) ‘Abbatial Authority and Monastic Accountability: Religious Obedience in the 21st century’	rtf (92kb) pdf (188kb)
Dom Colin Battell (Ampleforth) ‘Eunuchs for the sake of the Kingdom: a reflection on celibacy in the light of monastic tradition and experience’	rtf (197kb) pdf (213kb)
Dom Dermot Tredget (Douai) ‘Otia Monastica: some reflections on leisure and work in the context of contemporary monastic practice’	rtf (118kb) pdf (174kb)

Index of Monastic & Liturgical Theology Commission Symposiums

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