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The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance
by Erik Varden OCSO, Bloomsbury, 192pp £10.99

The Cistercian community of Mount St Bernard in Leicestershire has reinvented itself both by taking bold new steps and re-embracing its traditions. Electing the young Dom Erik Varden as abbot in 2015, the English Trappists also decided to close the dairy farm that had hitherto been their major work, and lately burden, and invest in the production of authentic Trappist beer. The beer, released this past summer, has been well received; this new book from Abbot Erik merits a similar welcome.

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