Cosmas or the Love of God

Pious, sensitive young Cosmas believes that he has a vocation to become a Trappist monk, but the reality of monastic life disappoints him. Fellow monks are irritating. The life of the monastery seems worldly. His own weaknesses appall him. Is God calling Cosmas to this life? If he can't live the life, does that mean God isn't calling him to it? Many lives - single, married, vowed, ordained - turn on these questions. Pierre de Calan explores them in this exquisite tale of a man who learns sanctity does not mean perfection.

 

Originally published in France over 30 years ago, this Loyola Classics reprint for 2006 brings this wonderful classic Catholic novel into the hands of a new generation of readers.

 

About the author : Pierre de Calan (1911–1993) was a Paris banker (and husband and father of a large family) who ended his career as president of the French division of Barclay’s Bank. He published Cosmas, or the Love of God, his only novel, in 1977.