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THE FATHER FOUNDER

   

  

 

An American Cloister

THE LIFE AND WORK OF

THE ORDER OF THE HOLY CROSS

 

By S. C. HUGHSON, O.H.C.

 

 

 

 

 

HOLY CROSS PRESS WEST PARK, N.Y.

1948

  

Reproduced online by permission of the Superior of the Order of the Holy Cross, 2008.


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Chapter I. The Religious Life.

Chapter II. The Early Beginnings.

Chapter III. Old Westminster Days.

Chapter IV. A Day at Holy Cross.

Chapter V. The Chapel.

Chapter VI. The Refectory.

Chapter VII. The Cell.

Chapter VIII. The Library.

Chapter IX. The Common-Room.

Chapter X. The Enclosure.

Chapter XI. Entrance into the Order.

Chapter XII. Our Rule and Work.

Chapter XIII. Our Confraternities and Associates.

Chapter XIV. Our Mountain-Top.

Chapter XV. Story of the Hinterland.

Chapter XVI. Mount Calvary, Santa Barbara.

Chapter XVII. The Holy Cross Press.

Chapter XVIII. The Need and the Vision.

Appendix. St. Augustine's Memorial Chapel.


PREFACE

The object of this book is not only to give such information concerning the Order of the Holy Cross as its friends may desire, but also to present, in brief, the immemorial principles of the monastic life as exemplified in a practical manner in a Religious Community operating in the Anglican Church in the twentieth century. In other words, the intention has been to interpret the life of the cloister for our own time.

The Church, as never before perhaps in her history, needs trained men, who are free to go wherever they may be sent for the work of the kingdom of God. If this book succeeds in showing the vision to young men of our time, and bringing even a few of them to renounce the world for the service of Christ, it will not have been written in vain.

S. C. H.
Autumn, 1947.


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