| Summary: | "A single letter written by a person may reveal more of his real character than a few volumes written about him. This simple idea served as a starter for this collection of letters written by the teen-ager Bernard McGinley, who became Father Gerard and eventually Abbot Gerard, of the Trappist-Cistercian monastery at Piffard, New York. The letters prove that St. Thérèse's "Little Way" is for souls who desire to be strong and virile lovers of God and man."--Preface.
"Meet, in his letters, a monk who uses many of our most familiar concepts, but only to make them look so strange that we actually see them for the first time. Let this Trappist Cistercian, as novice, professed monk, and abbot, take you into the intimacy of his cloistered life that he may show you some of the deepest mysteries of God--and prove how personal they are to you ... In these letters, Dom Gerard McGinley reveals not only the secret of his life, but the secret of all right living. That is a secret Trappist silence keeps reminding the world of: that the best and most realistic definition ever given of man is one who is capax Dei, "capable of being filled with God." Dom Gerard McGinley lived that definition to the letter ... His letters can bring our God-consciousness to the point of kindling in us a veritable passion to become what God made us to be: wholly human because so definitely divine."--Introduction.
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