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The author, Mother Cristiana, speaks to the reader in a simple conversational tone about the way a community guides today's new members in the ways of true love and charity. She is forthright and practical about modern attitudes and how they must be addressed... This book typifies what is happening to monastic life in this time of change and globalization, and also celebrates the universal wisdom of monasticism that can continue to give meaning to modern lives. The American Monastic Newsletter

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Cristiana Piccardo was born in Genova, Italy, in 1925, and in 1958 entered a monastery of Trappistine Cistercian nuns not far to the north of Rome, at Vitorchiano. In 1964 Mother Cristiana became the abbess. She left Vitorchiano to be the superior of their Venezuelan foundation from 1991 to 2002 where she currently resides.

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