Cistercians

The Cistercians were the Puritans of the monasteries, and appealed to that mysterious sentiment which makes some minds shrink with fear from the touch of luxury, and regard culture as antagonistic to personal holiness.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

The dress of the Cistercians was a white cassock, with a narrow scapulary, and over that a black gown, when they went abroad, but a white one when they went to church.

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So over the past few years, the Trappist monks - formally known as Cistercians of the Strict Observance - have prayed, reflected and discussed how best to stabilize their community financially yet retain the precious gift of their cloistered contemplative life.

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Next door neighbors and the Levanger commune have warmly welcomed the return of Cistercians, and await the rediscovery of a past that is somehow still present in their hidden memory and in the nearby monastic ruins.

Cistercians Found Monastery in Norway Near Mediaeval Cistercian Ruins 2009

Munkeby, the "place of the monks" was the third and northernmost Norwegian monastery established by the Cistercians in the 12th century.

Cistercians Found Monastery in Norway Near Mediaeval Cistercian Ruins 2009

You may remember that the German Trappist abbey of Mariawald, which last year had received the privilege conceded by the Holy Father of a complete return to the Liturgy and the Observance in use in the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) until 1963/64, had announced in March that in future all Masses would be celebrated according to the usus antiquior.

Videos from Mariawald 2009

The German Trappist Abbey of Mariawald, which last November had received the privilege conceded by the Holy Father of a complete return to the Liturgy and the Observance in use in the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Trappists) until 1963/64 and has been gradually implementing this return since (see previous posts here), has announced that now all Masses will be celebrated according to the usus antqiuior.

News from Mariawald: All Masses in the Extraordinary Form 2009

The archdiocese says it informed the Cistercians when it first learned of the allegations against the priest in 2006.

Prosecutors Investigating Robert Zollitsch, Top Archbishop In Germany 2010

The first YMCA building in Vienna was owned by the Cistercians, a Roman Catholic monastic order.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

Although there was a wide variety — and no architectural plan was imposed upon them as it was among the Cistercians — the women's churches were either aisleless hall churches in the shape of a rectangle as at Töss, Au bei Stein, and St. Katharinenthal, or a usually aisleless nave with a Germanic Langchor, as at Klingenthal, Oetenbach, and Unterlinden.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008