Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Ember Saturday in Lent
Ember Saturday in Lent Station at St Peter’s Ecclesiastical Vocations 1. Today the station is at the tomb of St Peter in the Vatican, where...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Ember Friday in Lent
Ember Friday of Lent Station at the Holy Apostles The Pool of the Sheep 1. The station is at the Apostoleion [Basilica of the Apostles]...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Thursday after the First Sunday of Lent
Thursday after the First Sunday of Lent Station at St Laurence ‘in Panisperna’ The Faith of a Pagan Woman 1.Today the station is on the...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Ember Wednesday in Lent
While we monks observe today the feast of the great Benedictine Pope St Gregory the Great, we also commemorate the ancient Mass of Ember Wednesday,...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Tuesday after the First Sunday of Lent
Blessed Cardinal Schuster reflects on reverence for God as displayed in the monastic tradition. The translations in round brackets are Schuster’s own; the material in...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Monday after the First Sunday of Lent
Schuster reflects on the Parable of the Judgment given in the Mass for today. He speaks of it as the first day of the...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: First Sunday of Lent
First Sunday of Lent Station at the Lateran The Hour of Salvation 1.Today the Sacred Liturgy presents to us this time of Lent as that...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Saturday after Ash Wednesday
Saturday after Ash Wednesday Station at St Trypho Spiritual Readings 1. ‘In Lent, from morning until the end of the third hour, let each one...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Thursday after Ash Wednesday
In the following text, inspired by yesterday’s Mass, Blessed Cardinal Schuster reflects further on the Lent as a time given us both to prepare for...
Blessed Schuster’s Daily Thoughts on the Rule: Ash Wednesday
Blessed Ildephonse Cardinal Schuster (1880-1954), monk, abbot, and finally Archbishop of Milan, was one of the greatest figures in the Benedictine Order in modern times,...
The Living Icons in the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict
Christo Omnino Nihil Praeponant: To Prefer Nothing to Christ Each Person is an Image of Christ Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is...
The Deifying Light and Mary, the Mount of God
The Deifying Light Selection of the Rule of St. Benedict for January 2, May 3, September 2 Let us arise, therefore, at long last, at...
Divine Mercy and the Monastic Vocation
Disclaimer: The series of letters entitled “Correspondence on the Monastic Vocation”, while based on the real questions of a number of men in various places...
Make known thy way unto the Lord (VII:9)
2 Feb. 3 June. 3 Oct. The fifth degree of humility is, not to hide from one’s Abbot any of the evil thoughts that beset...
The hard and rugged paths by which we walk towards God (LVIII:6)
CHAPTER LVIII. Of the Discipline of receiving Brethren into Religion 11 Apr. 11 Aug. 11 Dec. Let all the hard and rugged paths by which...
Where he is to meditate and study (LVIII:5)
CHAPTER LVIII. Of the Discipline of receiving Brethren into Religion 11 Apr. 11 Aug. 11 Dec. To him that newly cometh to change his life,...
The difficulty made about his coming in (LVIII:4)
CHAPTER LVIII. Of the Discipline of receiving Brethren into Religion
11 Apr. 11 Aug. 11 Dec. To him that newly cometh to change his life,...
Try the spirits if they be of God (LVIII:3)
CHAPTER LVIII. Of the Discipline of receiving Brethren into Religion
11 Apr. 11 Aug. 11 Dec. To him that newly cometh to change his life,...
Let not an easy entrance be granted (LVIII:2)
CHAPTER LVIII. Of the Discipline of receiving Brethren into Religion 11 Apr. 11 Aug. 11 Dec. To him that newly cometh to change his life,...
Deep lies my soul in the dust (XLIV)
CHAPTER XLIV. Of those who are excommunicated, how they are to make satisfaction 24 Mar. 24 July. 23 Nov. Let him, who for graver offences...