Category: Rule of Saint Benedict

Kinship in the Cloister

Here is the talk I gave this morning in Chapter. Ties That Bind The presence of members of the same family in a monastery has...

Impossible Things

Benedictine Wisdom I have been studying the Rule of Saint Benedict and trying to live it (however badly) for nearly forty years. This, however, is...

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...