The Trappist monk and prominent theologian and retreat master, Father André Louf, died on July 12, 2010. Louf was a monk of Mont-des-Cats, in France. He was born in 1929 in Leuven, Belgium; he entered the monastery in 1947 and elected abbot of his monastery in 1963, a ministry he exercised for 34 years. Upon retirement in 1997 he lived as a hermit and served for a while as a chaplain to a group of nun in the south of France.Famously he was the author of the 2004 meditations of the Way of the Cross at the invitation of Pope John Paul II. If you've not read them, get your hands on a copy which are available online.
... The sentiment which, in the end, will prevail for the truly humble person is an unshakeable confidence in God's mercy of which he has tasted at least a glimmer even in the midst of failure. How then could he doubt any longer? (A. Louf, The Way of Humility)
His obit is here.
May Father André's memory be eternal!
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