The Way of the Heart

<b>Award-winning French author shares the biography and spiritual journey of Cistercian abbot Dom </b><b>André Louf.</b> <p/> Based on a wide variety of interviews printed sources and Dom André Louf's spiritual journal <i>The Way of the Heart</i> narrates Louf's spiritual journey from his childhood in Flanders through his becoming a monk in a Cistercian monastery his ten years of retirement as a hermit in a Benedictine monastery in the south of France and his death. Throughout his life he periodically struggled with conflicting vocational desires--sometimes wishing to serve as a pastor academic abbot or to immerse himself in eremitic contemplation. That struggle is the leading thread through this biography which portrays a man whose immense gifts pulled him in many directions while always endeavoring to submit himself to God's will.