True Sons of St. Benedict
Words of Life: On the Margin of the Missal
by Dom Columba Marmion, Abbot of Maredsous
Fort Collins, Colorado: Roman Catholic Books, 2001 (originally published 1939)
(488 pages; $18.95, cloth)
Custody of the Heart: Selected Spiritual Writings of Abbot Martin Veth,
O.S.B.
edited by William P. Hyland
Atchison, Kansas: Benedictine College Press, 2001
(185 pages; $15.00 [$18.50 with postage and handling; it can be ordered from:
Fr. Maurice Haefling, O.S.B., St. Benedict’s Abbey, 1020 N. Second St.,
Atchison, KS 66002], paper)
reviewed by Addison H. Hart
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