God alone
Subtitle: a spiritual biography of Blessed Rafael Arnaiz Baron
By: by Gonzalo Maria Fernandez ; translated with a note by Hugh McCaffery.
Series: Monastic wisdom series -- no. 14
Publisher: Cistercian Publications; Liturgical Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9780879070144
Subjects: Arnáiz Barón, Rafael, -- 1911-1938; Trappists -- Spain -- Biography
Work titles: Hermano Rafael.
Table of contents: title: Among his own; title: Birth and family background; title: Childhood and schooldays; title: Rafael's artistic temperament; title: Rafael's first relations with and impressions of his La Trappe; title: A new stage; title: Rafael in Madrid : student and soldier; title: Preparations for entering at his La Trappe; title: His health before entering; title: His state of mind before entering; title: In monastic life; title: A joyful experience; title: The illness that changed it all; title: The esteem of his fellow monks in the monastery; title: Return to what had been left; title: Reflecting on his experience; title: Improving in health and thinking of returning; title: "The trappist's apologia"; title: Homesick for his La Trappe and helping his family; title: Request for entrance as an oblate; title: Waiting to re-enter; title: Waiting and writing; title: Teaching the ways of the spirit; title: Centered in love and "in waiting"; title: Talking about mary; title: Reasons for re-entering; title: Struggle during the last few moments; title: From here to there; title: In the monastery once again; title: "Meditations of a trappist" and the Civil War; title: Called up by his country, he leaves the monastery; title: Entering for the third time; title: The thought of God; title: In greater solitude; title: The third departure; title: With his family for the last time; title: New adjustment; title: Love triumphs in Him; title: Happy in God; title: Spiritual letters to his uncle; title: Preparing for his last return; title: To die at his La Trappe; title: Final re-entry; title: "God and my soul" : motives and longings; title: United with the will of God; title: To live loving; title: To live suffering; title: The challenge of the cross; title: Living in the last place; title: Living paradoxically; title: He offers his life, he is promised the cow; title: Under the influence of and desire for God; title: He receives the cowl, he dies.