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SUMMARY:SS Robert\, Alberic\, and Stephen
DESCRIPTION:THE JOURNEY TO THE WILDERNESS OF CITEAUX\nFrom the “Exordium Magnum” of Conrad of Eberbach 6\n◊◊◊ \nIn the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1098\, Dom Robert\, the abbot of\nthe Abbey of Molesme…and with him went those brothers whose hearts God had\ntouched\, set out from Molesme\, making the same choice as their father Saint\nBenedict\, to tire themselves out in working for God rather than settling down in a\ncomfortable way of life. They hurried eagerly to that place which by the grace of\nGod had been offered them beforehand as suitable to their endeavor\, that is\, to the\nwilderness called Citeaux. Situated in the diocese of Chalon\, it was at that time a\nplace but seldom approached by human beings because of the woods and dense\nbriars and inhabited only by wild beasts. \nThe men of God arrived at this place of horror and vast solitude; and thought\nit quite suitable for the sort of religious observance which they had long had in\nmind and for which they had come\, all the more so when they realized that the\ndensity of woods and briars would make the monastery remote and cut off\, quite\nforgotten by and inaccessible to the world. So by the will of the bishop of Chalon\nand the consent of the person to whom the place belonged\, they began to build\nthere… on 21 March\, that is\, on the solemnity of the birth [to eternal life] of Saint\nBenedict\, which was also Palm Sunday and therefore celebrated with double joy\,\nto the rejoicing of angels and the casting down of demons…By a happy omen\, those\nwho had decided to arrange the ordering of their life and the guidelines for divine\nservices according to the form prescribed in the Rule began this undertaking on\nthe birthday of the very person who had\, through the life-giving Spirit\, given the\nsaving law to many. \n…Just as at the beginning of grace\, when Christ our Lord and Savior was\nborn\, the world\, while it knew him not\, received a pledge of new redemption\, of\nancient reconciliation\, of eternal happiness\, so too in these last days\, when charity\nis cold and iniquity everywhere abounds\, the almighty and merciful Lord planted\nthe seed of that same grace in the wilderness of Citeaux. Watered by the rain of\nthe Holy Spirit\, it gathered an incredibly plentiful harvest of spiritual riches\,\ngrowing and developing into a great tree so surpassingly beautiful and fruitful that\npeople of various nations\, tribes\, and tongues delighted to rest in its shade and\nsatisfy themselves with its fruits. Yet although this fruit makes bitter the stomach\nof carnal desire by the work of repentance\, it is as sweet as honey in the mouth of\nthe developing conscience. \n6 Conrad of Eberbach. The Great Beginnning of Citeaux: A Narrative of the Beginning\nof the Cistercian Order: The Exordium Magnum of Conrad of Eberbach. CF 72. Trans.\nBenedicta Ward\, SLG\, and Paul Savage. Collegeville\, MN: Cistercian Publications\, 2012.\n75-78.
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