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Informationen zum Autor Fr. Hilary Costello, OCSO, (1926-2018), was born in London in 1926. During World War II he was conscripted into the coal mines, where he worked from 1943 to 1947. Although he had not considered a monastic vocation until he was nearly twenty, in 1947 he entered Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, in Leicestershire. For fourteen years he worked in the abbey's orchard, after which he was guest master for the abbey. After being ordained in 1955, he began to work on medieval manuscripts, especially the sermons of John of Forde, which he and Fr. Edmund Mikkers, ocso, edited for Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis (vols. 17 and 18). He has also published articles on John, Gilbert of Hoyland, and other Cistercian authors. Fr. Hilary was also the bursar of Mount Saint Bernard for almost twenty years. Klappentext Simple and direct! John of Forde writes in a way that is also profound and often distinctly original. He is a theologian with a flair for language that appeals to ordinary readers! a monk in a very masculine world who is not afraid of deep emotional feelings. Few other spiritual writers can achieve his poignancy without trailing into sentim entality. Yet for seven hundred years John has remained largely unknown and ignored. He passed much of his life at the cistercian abbey of Forde in southwest England at the end of the twelfth century! active in the Order and well-known among his contemporaries. Only with the publication of his sermons on the Song of Songs! first in Latin and then in English! has he become known to moderns! even modern Cistercians. Here in one volume is an introduction to his spirituality! typical of his age and Order and yet ageless. His charm for readers today lies in the genial simplicity of his style! which speaks directly to the heart.
