{"id":25711,"date":"2010-07-16T12:29:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/fr-andre-louf-ocso-rip\/"},"modified":"2014-01-10T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:38:20","slug":"fr-andre-louf-ocso-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/fr-andre-louf-ocso-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr Andr&eacute; Louf, OCSO RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/Andre%20Louf-thumb-181x184-6936.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Andre Louf.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/Andre%20Louf-thumb-181x184-6936-thumb-181x184-6937.jpg\" width=\"181\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a>The Trappist monk and prominent theologian and retreat master, Father Andr\u00e9 Louf, died on July 12, 2010. Louf was a monk of <strong><a href=\"www.abbaye-montdescats.com\">Mont-des-Cats<\/a><\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ve not read them, get your hands on a copy which are available online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The sentiment which, in the end, will prevail for the truly humble person is an unshakeable confidence in God&#8217;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, <i>The Way of Humility<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>His <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monasterodibose.it\/index.php\/content\/view\/3622\/122\/lang,en\/\">obit is here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>May Father Andr\u00e9&#8217;s memory be eternal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trappist monk and prominent theologian and retreat master, Father Andr\u00e9 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/07\/fr-andre-louf-ocso-rip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fr Andr&eacute; Louf, OCSO RIP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[31974,1756,1860],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30162,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711\/revisions\/30162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}