Fr.LUKE Dysinger has been a member of the Benedictine monastic community at Saint Andrew's Abbey Valyermo, California, since May, 1980. He has served in the past as novicemaster, juniormaster, and prior; he is presently librarian and second cantor. He teaches patristics, the history of Christian spirituality, bioethics, and human sexuality at Saint John's Seminary in Camarillo, California. He teaches monastic formation and monastic spirituality at the School of Theology of Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Prior to joining the monastery he trained as a physician, graduating from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1978, and completing his residency in family practice in 1981. He serves as chair of the bioethics committee at the Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center in Lancaster, California, where he is a member of the medical staff.

He studied theology in Oxford, completing his studies for ordination in 1985 and his D.Phil. in patristics in 2000. He has published a translation of the Rule of Benedict, as well as articles on Evagrius Ponticus, lectio divina, and other subjects in monastic spirituality. His book "Prayer and Palmody in the Writings of Evagrius Ponticus" will be published by Oxford University Press in June, 2004.

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