{"product_id":"finding-the-treasure-letters-from-a-global-monk-volume-34-9780879070342","title":"Finding the Treasure: Letters from a Global Monk Volume 34","description":"\u003cp\u003eAugustine Roberts is a New England Yankee, transplanted by circumstance first to Argentina and then to Rome, from where frequent travel took him to nearly every part of the globe. The historical era into which he was born, so fraught with personal and communal soul-searching, also made him wrestle with all the tensions of the contemporary church and world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinding the Treasure\u003c\/i\u003e tells of Dom Augustine's conversion to the Catholic Church while attending Yale and of his remarkably varied monastic experience during the turbulent years of church renewal following Vatican II. These \u003ci\u003eletters from a global monk\u003c\/i\u003e will not disappoint anyone fascinated by the paradox of a monk who, rooted by vow to his monastery, becomes a globe-trotter precisely out of deep obedience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAugustine Roberts, OCSO, has been a Trappist monk since the early 1950s. After serving as abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, he became Procurator General of the Trappist Order. In the 1960s he was one of the founders of the first abbey of his Order in South America, later serving as its abbot. Today he is a much sought-after guide, called to help many communities in the delicate task of adapting the perennial monastic way of life to the needs of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liturgical Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780879070342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Augustine Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52982998270133,"sku":"9780879070342","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9780879070342.jpg?v=1787062837","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/finding-the-treasure-letters-from-a-global-monk-volume-34-9780879070342","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}