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Trappist Tales

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These short stories, set in the fictional abbey Our Lady of St. Bernard in the mid-to-late 1950s, describe an era of American monasticism predating the reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. The canonical hours and other services were still sung in Latin, and the monks were divided into three groups: the choir monk priests (called Father in these stories), choir monk novices and scholastics (called Frater), and lay brothers (called Brother). The daily routine of the choir monks involved primarily chanting and study, with a few hours of physical labor, while the lay brothers tended to most of the farm chores. These distinctions were blurred after the reforms, and services were thereafter conducted in the predominant language of each country, English in the case of the United States.

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