The organisation of the monastery is directed to bringing the monks into close
union with Christ, since it is only through the experience of personal love for the
Lord Jesus that the specific gifts of the Cistercian vocation can flower. Only if the
brothers prefer nothing whatever to Christ will they be happy to persevere in a life
that is ordinary, obscure and laborious. And may he lead them all together into
eternal life.
Detail of resurrected Christ by Bergognone. Lines from The Constitutions of the Monks.