THE ABBOT OF PRINKNASH

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new Fr. Upson. His activities on the Isle of Thanet did not seem to belong to that former existence of cloistered regularity on the Isle of Caldey. The would-be solitary had become an apostle!
After six years of this strenuous existence, Dom Wilfrid was elected first Abbot of Prinknash, and returned to his community. From now onwards the active and the contemplative ideals became fused He must build a great abbey, where the liturgy could be car'tied out with all possible splendour, for as he wrote: ' In these days when the supernatural spirit is so generally lacking, and when God seems as it were to he constantly pushed into the corner, is it not surely of supreme importance that monks (Benedictines at any rate) should strive to show forth His glory by worshipping Rim in a really grand and majestic manner?"
Abbot Upson feels strongly that he must bring the world to his monks, even if they do not go to the world. He Is convinced that Prinknash has something to offer which the world badly needs to-day. As the world does not always realise this, it has got to be made aware of it. This, so one feels, is the inspiration of that tireless energy and propaganda which are characteristic of this twentieth century convert-Abbot, who in so many ways reminds one of some of the great medieval Abbots of auny.