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For your own people : Aelred of Rievaulx's pastoral prayer / critical edition, introduction, and annotations by Marsha L. Dutton ; translation by Mark DelCogliano.
Van Pelt Library BV237 .A35313 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167.
- Series:
- Cistercian Fathers series ; no. 73.
- Cistercian fathers series ; no. 73
- Standardized Title:
- Oratio pastoralis. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Prayers, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 69 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Original Latin texts with parallel English translation.
- Summary:
- Responsible before God for the members of his monastic community, the abbot guides, protects, and serves his monks. Aelred of Rievaulx, a twelfth-century Cistercian abbot renowned for pastoral care, in this prayer, suitable for all pastors, entreats Jesus to assist him in the awesome task of bringing to God the brothers whom Christ has called together. He proclaims his love for them and identifies them as Jesus' own people, the new Israel, the community of Christ's brothers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-65).
- ISBN:
- 9780879072735
- 0879072733
- OCLC:
- 182962504
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