BENEDICT HIS MEDALLON YOU WILL SEE ON THE PHOTO, TAKEN FROM HIS BOOKS ,SEE http://www.monasteria.org/
THE WORDS MEAN THAT WE WHENEVER WE DIE WE WIL BE SUPPORTED BY His Words and His Presence.
fruitfull reformations of the Order of Saint Benedict was effected by Gods grace in Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153).The Trappist communities have embraced the reform movement from the 17th century,starting in France.Clairvaux developed the Cistercian order in a way the Trappists could accept .OSB.The Cistercians is a book which gives y more details,see www.osb.org/cist
The Mystical Theology of St.Bernard is another book which y can read,the author is also advicing the Pope in the 11th and 12th centuries.
All Trappistmonks relate their name to the Abbey of the Grande Trappe in Normandie,France,Western Europe.The Abbey of Citeaux in the Cotedór department south from Dijon,France is the basis for the Cistercium,=Cistercians, Robert van Molesme,founder of this Abbey.The Trappist abbeys y will find in Belgium and the Netherlands (Nederland), 13 out of which 7 brew the famous La Trappe monk beer.Six in Belgium and one in The Netherlands.( since 1884 in de schaapskooi,Berkel Enschot NL).The trappists official name is Cistercian order of the strict observance=french abbreviation=O.C.S.O.
for example Abbot Bernardus Peeters O.C.S.O ,from Berkel Enschots- O.L.V.Koningshoeven-abbey.
In the words of Benedict ,we serve God,we leave all else,devoting our life to entering more fully into the mystery of a growing union with God,and to spreading Christ's Kingdom through intercessory prayer and sacrifice.
God bless the Monks in Europe and the Philippines and elsware,ejus in obitu nostro presentia muniamur.
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