Laudate; The Quarterly Magazine of the Benedictine Community at Pershore Abbey,
Worcestershire: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co. Ltd, 1923. Volume I, Number 1. Octavo (8 1/2 inches tall), stitched in original brick red wrappers, printed in black and decorated on both panels, advertisements to inside front flap and rear panel. Faint stain and gentle toning to wrappers. Item #1576
"THE COMMUNITY WHO HAVE AT HEART THE REVIVAL OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE AMONG MEN WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND"
Inaugural issue—Volume I, Number 1—of Laudate, the Quarterly Magazine of the Benedictine Community at Pershore Abbey. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Pershore Abbey.
This first volume of Laudate captures the flavor of Anglican monasticism at Pershore Abbey a decade after the Caldey conversions of 1913. Donated by Henry Wise to the Anglican Benedictines of Caldey in 1910, Pershore Abbey became a refuge for the small group of Caldey monks who had remained in the Church of England. They were gathered around Dom Denys Prideaux, O.S.B., "the power behind the throne on Caldey Island" (Peter F. Anson), the Founder Abbot of Pershore Abbey (1922), and later the first Abbot of Nashdom Abbey when the community moved in 1926.
This first issue of Laudate contains notices and advertisements, a Charter, Notes from the Abbey ("there are now six monks in solemn profession...the Community now numbers sixteen"). Also with a brief prefatory Letter from Viscount Halifax (listed as one the "Pershore Helpers") commending the new quarterly from the Community "who have at the heart of the revival of religious life among men within the borders of the Church of England." Prideaux, "whose erudition was so profound that most of the monks failed to understand what he was driving at" (Anson), contributes an extended consideration of the Ignatian origins of the Anima Christi prayer. Petà Dunstan. The Labour of Obedience: The Benedictines of Pershore, Nashdom and Elmore: A History; Peter F. Anson. Building Up the Waste Places: The Revival of Monastic Life on Medieval Lines in the Post-Reformation Church of England.
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