"The Lord passed by." "Then a great wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but He was not in the wind." "After that there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake." "After that came a fire but the Lord was not in the fire." "After the fire came a gentle whisper." "1 Kings 19, 11-13" "INTO GREAT SILENCE" "Anyone who does not give up all he has cannot be my disciple." "What do you ask for?" "Grace." "Rise!" "Out of love I ask to be admitted in probation to monastic life as the most humble servant of all." "If you, venerable Father, and the community deem it correct." "Dear Etienne and Benjamin," "I ask now both of you:" "Are you ready to adopt our monastic way of life, as the way through which God will lead your souls to the inner holiness," "where He will reveal his existence to you and let you commune with Him?" "In as much as the goodness of God is bestowed upon me" "I hope to serve in this way." "Putting my trust solely in the love of God and in the prayers of my brothers," "I hope to fulfill these expectations." "In as much as the goodness of God is bestowed upon me." "You must know, dear brothers, that before you take the eternal vow, you still have the freedom to leave." "On the other hand, we too reserve the freedom and the right to refuse you, in the case that we do not consider you fit for our way of life." "Do you agree?" "Yes, Reverend Father." "Step nearer, now, for the embrace of peace." "In the name of God, of our Order, in my own name and in the names of all the brothers of this community," "I welcome you into the community of the Order." "Dom Marie-Pierre... from now on you shall live in the cell and follow the additional rules of our Order." "You are at God's disposal alone, in solitude and stillness in an everlasting prayer and a joyful penitence." "I leave you to the master of novices who shall visit you at the appropriate time and watch over your training." "O Lord, you have seduced me, and I was seduced." "O Lord, you have seduced me, and I was seduced." "Anyone who does not give up all he has cannot be my disciple." "He is the boss." "Behold the silence:" "Allow the Lord to speak one Word in us... that HE is." "Treatise of St. Basil on the Holy Spirit" "In the simplicity of God exists the unity of a divine community through its godly nature." "The Holy Spirit is one, and we speak of him as unique, since through the one Son he is joined to the Father." "He completes the all-praised and blessed Trinity." "This is sufficient evidence of his intimacy with the Father and one Son." "He is not ranked with the plurality of creation but is described in the singular." "He is not one of many but one only:" "just as there is one Father and one Son, there is one Holy Spirit." "Reason demands that the singular is separated from the plural." "Therefore he does not share created nature." "He proceeds from the mouth of the Father." "Of course, the "mouth" of the Father is not a physical member, nor is the Spirit a dissipated exhalation, but "mouth" is used to the extent that it is appropriate to God, and the Spirit is the essence of life" "and divine sanctification." "Their intimacy is made clear, while the ineffability of God's existence is safeguarded." "Praise the Lord!" "Consider the analogy of the sunbeam:" "Whoever feels its kindly light rejoices as if the sun existed for him alone, yet it illuminates land and sea and is master of the atmosphere." "In the same way, the Spirit is given to each one who receives him as if he were the possession of that person alone." "What do you have that you did not receive?" "And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?" "Lord, we receive this food through your grace, through Jesus Christ our Lord." "Statutes of the Carthusian Order" "Chapter 22: "Our Life in Common"." "We take dinner together in the refectory on Sundays and solemnities, on which days we meet together more frequently, so that we may taste something of the joy of family life." "The refectory, which we enter after the Office in the chapel, recalls the Last Supper, a meal which Christ blessed." "A period of conversation is accorded to the fathers after the Chapter of the Nones." "At recreation, let us remember St. Paul's exhortation:" "rejoice, be of one mind, be at peace, so that the God of peace and love may remain with us." "As St. Bruno says, when wearied by our quite austere rule and application to spiritual things, our rather delicate natures can often be refreshed and renewed by the charms and beauties of woods and countryside." "The fathers have a walk every week, with the exception of the Holy Week." "Should it be necessary to go through a town or a village, they will be content simply to pass through, preserving due decorum," "nor may they ever enter the houses of seculars." "On the walks, we are not to eat or drink anything except plain water, found by the wayside." "What you've read today is usually not read." "Yes?" "What does that mean?" "The entire paragraph in parentheses?" " Yes, exactly." "No, no one ever reads it." "Many translations treat it as an addition." "In Sélignac, they have not been washing their hands before the refectory for 20 years now." "Do you think we should stop washing our hands?" " No, but it wouldn't be a big deal to get rid of something useless." "Our entire life, the whole liturgy, and everything ceremonial are symbols." "If you abolish the symbols, then you tear down the walls of your own house." "In the Monastery in Pavia, instead of one wash-basin they have six." "There you can wash your hands properly." "Yes, they're also Trappists!" "When we abolish the signs, we lose our orientation." "Instead, we should search for their meaning." "But one should unfold the core of the symbols." "The signs are not to be questioned, we are." "I'm not against hand washing," "I just forget to dirty my hands first." "The error is not to be found in hand- washing, the error is in our mind." "What time do you leave tomorrow?" "Exactly at noon." "Where are you flying?" " Seoul."