Letter to a Novice Oblate (I)
This is the first of a series of letters that I will be writing to the Oblates of the Monastery of Our Lady of the...
Conversion: Saint Paul’s and Ours
Image: A detail from the incomparable Caravaggio’s Conversion of Saint Paul. A Divine Inbreaking For Benedictines who make a vow of conversion — conversatio morum...
Reception of Oblate Novices
Today, on the Second Sunday after Epiphany, and the feast of Saints Maurus and Placid, I received three men and four women into the year...
First Letter to Wilfrid on Prayer
My dear Wilfrid, You were trusting enough, and humble enough to share with me something of the difficulties you experience in the prayer of adoration....
God’s bounty toward us has been multiplied
The Lectionary used at Matins is that edited by Stephen Mark Holmes for Pluscarden Abbey. Today’s readings are especially lovely. The responsories are proper to...