I forgot to ask — do Cistercians traditionally go by first name?
Monks typically take names, when they are professed. I have noticed that even the most conservative monks will use the Fr. First name.
A Latin Rite Catholic Bishop should NEVER use his first name though, as a sign of humilty to his rank.
My Uncle is a Priest and while we call him Uncle First Name in family circles, whenever I would refer to him in mixed company it is always Fr. Last Name
Even two fellows I knew before Ordination I address as Fr. Last Name. Sometimes I feel it’s kind of tongue in cheek but I always tell them I like the sound of it.
Glad someone else answered the first name question; now I recall that, too, as in, e.g, “Monk Mark” (that would be more Eastern, perhaps, but gets the idea—or Fr. Seraphim (Rose)).
Fr. Mark is very orthodox and seems well disposed to the Classic Liturgy. If you drill back into his archives you will see a phto of him celebrating Mass ad orientem at some convent, where the altar is quite new looking, but he is still ad orientem anyway. I rank his blog site
http://vultus.stblogs.org/
as one of the best in the Catholic blogosphere, up there with the Franciscans of the Immaculates’ “Air Maria”, which is also a must visit daily site: http://airmaria.com/