Benedictine Wisdom»
God is my objective (0)
God is the meditation of my heart and my inheritance, that I await, long for and delight in. He is the objective I have set myself, the whole reason for my efforts. He, God himself, is the inheritance I plan to bring to a home of right-ordered love, that he may sup with me and [...]
Br. Mark»
The search (0)
The search In solitude, when there is quiet, it is then that the inner world demands attention. Face to face with a presence that is closer than our skin, beyond form, yet seeking a response. If I was an atheist I would find solitude different….how different I am not sure, for [...]
Church Fathers»
Do not deny your soul what is needs (0)
Every day you provide your bodies with good to keep them from failing. In the same way your good works should be the daily nourishment of your hearts. Your bodies are fed with food and your spirits with good works. You aren’t to deny your soul, which is going to live forever, what you grant to your body, which [...]
Church News & Info»
Pope targets worldly Church as biggest threat (0)
Vatican City, Apr 30, 2013 / 06:50 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The “greatest danger” for the Church is if it becomes worldly, since this prevents her from communicating the message of the Cross, Pope Francis said. “When the Church becomes worldly, when she has the spirit of the world within herself … it is a weak [...]
Desert Wisdom»
Prayer without Ceasing: O God, Come to my assistance (0)
. . . this was delivered to us by a few of those who were left of the oldest fathers, so it is only divulged by us to a very few and to those who are really keen. And so for keeping up continual recollection of God this pious formula is to be ever set [...]
Instruction»
Become the brother of God (0)
I hear You saying to me: “I will give you what you desire. I will lead you into solitude. I will lead you by the way that you cannot possibly understand, because I want it to be the quickest way. “Therefore all the things around you will be armed against you, to deny you, to [...]
Lectio Divina»
Scripture Should Lead to ‘Personal Encounter With the Lord of Life’ (Comments Off)
VATICAN CITY (EWTN News/CNA)—Pope Benedict XVI spoke today about Psalm 119 as a wonderful discourse on the breadth and depth of man’s relationship with God. The Psalmist’s song “voices the range of sentiments which fill the hearts of those who pray: praise, thanksgiving, trust, supplication and lament, all within the context of a heartfelt openness [...]
Liturgy of the Hours»
Psalm 119(118):145-152: Praise God for His Gift of Law (0)
1. What the liturgy of Lauds for Saturday of the first week offers us is a single strophe of Ps 118[119], (the verses 145-152), in the monumental prayer of 22 strophes or stanzas, that correspond to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Each strophe begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the [...]
Lives of Saints»
St. Odo of Cluny (0)
. . . St Odo was a true spiritual guide both for the monks and for the faithful of his time. In the face of the “immensity of the vices widespread in society, the remedy he strongly advised was that of a radical change of life, based on humility, austerity, detachment from ephemeral things and [...]
Living the Rule»
Common to the point of blandness (0)
I was reading yesterday, a book written by a Priest about the NDE experience and the Christian path. I won’t go into the book, but as I was reading it, the reality of my being in the latter part of my life was very strong. It does not matter that I ‘may’ have thirty years [...]
Marian»
We Salute you Mary, Mother of God (Comments Off)
Mary, Mother of God, we salute you. Precious vessel, worthy of the whole world’s reverence, you are an ever-shining light, the crown of virginity, the symbol of orthodoxy, an indestructible temple, the place that held him whom no place can contain, mother and virgin. Because of you the holy Gospels could say Blessed is he [...]
Monastery»
Belmont Abbey: Founder’s Day (1)
In April of 1876, Father Herman Wolf, OSB finally left [Saint Vincent Abbey in] Richmond to start his new monastery. He was accompanied by two Richmond boys, Henry Plageman and Anthony Lauman, who were to be the new schools’s first pupils and the farm’s first laborers. Garibadi [Station, now the City of Belmont] was reached [...]
Oblate Formation»
Do not let others define who you are. (0)
Do people insert themselves into your life? Has it happened that others have defined what your relationship with them should be — with little or no input from you? Do you feel pressed by certain folks to act out a relationship that isn’t in your heart and thus perhaps not in your destiny? Problems — [...]
Rule»
The cost of mercy (Comments Off)
What does it mean when someone accepts mercy, or asks for forgiveness and receives it? Many people seem to think that mercy is an affront to justice, when in fact it can go hand in hand with it. In human relationships, the showing of mercy can off set the power that an evil, or hurtful [...]
St Benedict»
St. Benedict (Comments Off)
. . . If we were to sum up Benedict’s spirituality, it would be ora et labora: “prayer and work.” However, his understanding of the purpose of work was far different from the contemporary attitude in which work is viewed through the lenses of materialism, pragmatism and single-minded efficiency. Today, it is often thought that man [...]
Work of God»
Real Men Say the Rosary (0)
CNA. On May 13, 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared for the first time to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal. She shone radiantly before those whom the world initially took no notice – as the Mother of God tends to do – during a year that also saw the rise of Soviet communism and [...]
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