December 1974

Br Casimir
Saint Joseph's Abbey
Spencer, Massachusetts 01562

Thank you for showing me your
commentary on the Canticle. Y're quite
in the tradition of the Cisterician Fathers,
including the fact that you commented only
the first verses ?

I realise you know wlot, not only of
hebrew and greek, but in BIble,
and how much y're in love of Jesus, of the
Fathers, in the SPirit. It's nice that you
cannot be first a Scripture scholar, but
a monk, pouring out all your knowledge
and love, and speaking of Christ since
the start.

I hope y'll continue up to the end of 
the Canticle and of your life. And y'll
be able to draw from it a New Cistercian
Commentary on the holiest Song.

The originality of your work is that
it does not center in any of hte
literary genres or categories presently
existing. Y're creating a new one,
in the form of monastic Florilegia.

             J. Leclercq