Living the Rule 
Stories and examples of how monastics and oblates live out the Rule in their daily lives.
I am so agitated all the time
“I am so agitated all the time”, he told me (You can’t heard cats or people if you try your head will explode) Just about anything that is discussed that has to deal with relationships can sound so like a cliché, but none-the-less can be true. A cliché can become something life giving if what… Read More ›
Faith and Surety
Becoming a disciple takes time. Sometimes I think I am just beginning to get it. Not even sure I’ve got it now, but certain things make more sense…years intervene while the convert (monk) struggles to become what he is. Michael Casey in an article on PATIENCE: Length of years is not that important when I think… Read More ›
Politics
(I promise this is my last political rant) Politics is important but the availability of coverage and the preponderance of negative campaigning during the fight for nomination, actually leave me totally confused…I like the word ‘confuded’.. It would seem that they are all dishonest, only in for themselves and will do anything to get in… Read More ›
Fortitude/ Endurance
I wasn’t sure I could make it up all those steps. I was beginning to feel that this might be thrusting me over the edge of my endurance level. I could turn back, but I kept thinking – the top can’t be too far away. I was so tired I couldn’t look up. I could… Read More ›
Trump Rap
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make. (Donald Trump) No. We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices … Government has to make those choices for people. (Hillary Clinton) I hope we don’t make an investment on Trump, but is Hilary any better? We need a change, I… Read More ›
Compassion and Beneficence (Our True-North)
“The world today is closer together and adherents of non-Christian religions live among us. In this situation, for the sake of understanding and peaceful coexistence, it is necessary to take a look over the fence of our own cultural context into the world of religions. In the process, we ascertain that compassion and beneficence are… Read More ›
A man fatigued and under pressure
Sometimes I just want to go to sleep and not wake up! (Something a man on retreat told me.) I was taking to one of the men on retreat here. His life was out of control, his job was something that he hated and he and his wife were constantly fighting over money issues. Though… Read More ›
Purity of heart, failure, listening, confession and healing
Transference: the shift of emotions, especially those experienced in childhood, from one person or object to another, especially the transfer of feelings about a parent to an analyst. I enjoy my position in our retreat house… I like people. Yet working with the public has made me aware of deeper regions of my soul, which… Read More ›
The sea, Ayn Rand, hotdogs, and a job in 1976
I remember visiting some of the family in Texas, it was in 1976 and I guess I spent about 4 months there. I was 26, questioning on which direction that I wanted my life to go in. I was not in any kind of crisis, but just realized that I needed to think about some… Read More ›
A woman who shone more than she knew
One way that many people deal with their interior life is to try to repress all that would allow growth in self knowledge. The problem with this is that it takes a great deal of energy to do so and can in fact lead to depression, or being compulsively busy. It takes a lot of… Read More ›