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At the Congress of Abbots<\/a> now meeting in Rome, well-known monastic author Fr. Michael Casey, OCSO gave a presentation on the \u201cautonomy\u201d of monasteries. In the later Middle Ages there was a tendency, for reformist reasons, to diminish the autonomy of individual monastic houses and to centralize them in a confederation under a superior. Centralization brought with it, of course, the danger of authoritarianism. This was resisted by local superiors.<\/p>\n

One Cistercian abbot general, making a canonical visit, was put up in the prelate\u2019s quarters. A window opened into the cloister, where he observed two monks speaking loudly and longer than permitted. He ordered the abbot to deal with the problem. He did. He replaced the window with a solid wall, so future visitators would have no such view.<\/p>\n

At a visistation of Cistercian women, the abbot general observed that lay people were taking a shortcut through the garden which was part of the cloister. He ordered the abbess to keep the gate locked. She agreed, but the visitator found the same state of affairs at the next visitation. This time, it is reported, he brought a chain and lock and ordered the abbess to secure the gate. She did\u2026 and then had a second gate cut into the wall.<\/p>\n

Ah, for the good old days.<\/p>\n

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