Category: Monastic

Letter to a brother on the way

How many greater gifts will come to you in the truly blessed life that lies before us, is, I must admit, beyond my capacity to...

The Core of Monasticism Is Adoration

In the address pronounced three years ago at the flourishing Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Pope Benedict XVI offered the whole Church a veritable Charter of Monastic Life...

Benedictine Oblates

Oratory of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Cenacle Our First Meeting On Sunday afternoon a group of four men and three women participated...

Ut sanentur

End of the Penal Code This morning at Chapter we concluded the eight chapters of the Holy Rule (XXII-XXX) that comprise Saint Benedict’s so-called “penal...

Confirmetur in eo caritas

Chapter This morning at Chapter (a daily reflection on a chapter of the Rule of Saint Benedict) we read one of my favourite passages: “That...