Born from the Gaze of God: The Tibhirine Journal of a Martyr Monk (1993-1996)

by Christophe Lebreton, Mette Louise Nygïrd (Translator), Edith Scholl (Translator)

Overview

Christophe Lebreton, aged forty-six, was the youngest of the seven Trappist monks assassinated in Algeria by terrorists in 1996.  He was also the poet of the group.  Anyone who was enthralled by the recent film Of Gods and Men should find in Brother Christophe’s Journal ample and deeply moving material for meditation on both the light and the darkness inherent in the human condition.

The Journal begins in 1993, four months before the terrorists’ first visit to the monastery at Tibhirine, and it ends on March 19, 1996, just seven days before the monks’ abduction. Entry after entry touches readers both by its vivid sincerity and by the fresh and inventive quality of its poetic expression. Through these pages readers become privy to the daily events in the soul of a generous searcher after God under very trying conditions. His style is highly personal, playful, ardent, full of color and whimsy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879070373
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	06/01/2014
Series:	Monastic Wisdom , #37
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	905,912
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Sister Edith Scholl studied piano and composition at the University of Michigan, where she earned a bachelor of music degree. She entered Mount Saint Mary's Abbey in 1956. She is currently the prioress, teaches liturgy and Christian spirituality, and has written music for her community's liturgy. She has contributed articles to Hidden Springs and Peaceweavers, and an anthology of early Cistercian texts, In the School of Love (all published by Cistercian Publications).

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the Present Edition   ix
     Archbishop Emeritus of Algiers, Henri Teissier
A Long Love Poem: Preface to the First Edition   xvii
     Dom Armand Veilleux
Foreword to the First Edition   xxiii
     Father Jean-Pierre Schumacher
Presentation   xxv
Tibhirine Journal 1993–1996   1
     1993   3
     1994   27
     1995   129
     1996   201
Photos and Facsimiles   211