Dom Eugene Boylan O C S O For thirty years Catholic Christians have been turning and returning to this remarkable spiritual classic in which a Trappist monk speaks clearly and perceptively to the world of priest religious or layperson still in the world It has been called a modern Introduction to the Devout Life It is a book that takes the question of personal sanctity and relates it to a Pauline vision of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ It is a spiritual reading experience that is very old ever new a book which when read again remains remarkably fresh and inspiring Imprimatur Michael E Laonensis July 23 1946