Lectio Divina for the Week of Septuagesima
Every week I prepare a sheet to facilitate the lectio divina of the community. Although this is intended primarily for those who are at the...
Ut perfectam disciplinam teneamus in Christo
A Soldier Turned Monk Today is the feast of Saint Benedict of Aniane (745-821). Under the patronage of Louis the Pious (778-840), Benedict of Aniane,...
The Way of the Pilgrim
Pilgrimage and Enclosure When one thinks of the Benedictine ideal, one imagines monks behind their enclosure walls, buried deep in a kind of unshakeable stability....
Ask her intercession now!
I received this morning the most touching request to pray for little Gavin Glynn, who has been fighting cancer for the last 2.5 years. Gavin...
One must never fear to give Mary too much
I continue today my translation of Mother Mectilde’s text on true devotion to the Blessed Virgin. She wrote this text sometime during her Benedictine noviciate...