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By Jean Leclercq

The affection of studying and the will for God consists of a chain of lectures given to younger priests on the Institute of Monastic experiences at Sant'Anselmo in Rome throughout the iciness of 1955-56.

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It gives it those qualities of humanity and discretion and the ring of conviction which explain his influence. For him, man's suffering is by no means a theoretical notion; he knew it from the inside at the cost of a sensitivity that was sharpened and increased by the difficulties of each day. Finally, his experience is that of a contemplative condemned to action. His ideal is the calm of monastic life: that is, the life he wanted to lead, and was able to lead for only a few years. External circumstances and the call from God obliged him to serve and then to govern the Church, to live, as he says, in the "agitations of the world," and this during a time which was particularly troubled in Rome and in all Italy.

Bertaud, "Une traduction en vers latin des Dialogues de S. Grégoire," Jumièges: Congrès Scientifique du XIIIe centenaire (Rouen, 1955), pp. 625-35. 6. He cites Gregory three hundred times, according to H. Rochais, "Pour une nouvelle édition du `Liber scintillarum'," Études mérovingiens (Paris, 1953) 260. 7. I. Hausherr, Penthos (Rome, 1944), p. 23; F. J. Orientalia Christiana periodica (1955) 109-14. 8. Cf. Indices in Summa theologiae and Summa contra gentiles (Rome, 1948), pp. 213-15. 9. F. Bouchage (Paris, 1930).

He left a work on grammar in which he teaches, as he does in his treatises on the spiritual life, a way to reach Heaven. It is through Latinity that the elect have been admitted to the knowledge of the Trinity; therefore it is through it that they must win an eternal crown. 28 How does grammar help one get to Heaven? By making possible the reading of the Scripture and the Fathers, it becomes a means for salvation and takes on sublime dignity. It is a gift of God, like His word itself, from which it cannot be separated since it furnishes the key to it.

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