A Lenten Ride
When St. Benedict wrote in his Rule that the life of a monk should be one of continual Lent, I wonder if he was smiling. It’s like a professor telling her...
Category: Benedictine
A disarmed heart
I introduced myself, thanked him for his talk on "centering prayer," and turned to leave. Father James stopped me and said, "I wonder if you̵...
Christmas and Stability
Orange Christmas lights, one slim blinking strand, draped over a deck railing on an apartment block across the street–like they were thrown from 20 floors...
Acedia the noon-day demon
These are the dog days, the fog days, the automaton days, days of sleepy restlessness when the vice of shallowness snuffs out the bit of light I normally cast o...