Instruction 
Instruction on the Rule by noteworthy modern day monastics or oblates
Protect the human person as the image of God
Every new responsibility entails risks. What counts is to have the right interactions. You have to make the most of the resources, talents, and qualities everyone brings to the team. . . Our constant goal in all of this must be to protect the human person as the image of God. Though fragile and under… Read More ›
Reflecting on Lent
. . . we are halfway through Lent. We have gone through twenty days and three Sundays. We have twenty days and three Sundays ahead. So it is a good moment to stop and look. What have we been doing with this Lent? Going back and listening to Benedict again: During these days, therefore, we… Read More ›
You are responsible for finding yourself
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling. We can help one another to find the meaning of life no doubt. But in the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and… Read More ›
Monks and Lenten Pretzels
Do pretzels really have anything to do with Lent? Fr. Williams Saunders The pretzel indeed has its origins as an official food of Lent. However, much of the information available is based on tradition that has been handed down through the ages. Nevertheless, the Vatican library actually has a manuscript illustrating one of the earliest… Read More ›
Be who God intended you to be
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by… Read More ›
Refusal to air John 3:16 Super Bowl ad censored Jesus
Washington D.C., Feb 8, 2011 / 05:43 am (CNA).- The Fox Broadcasting Company’s refusal to air a Super Bowl commercial which encouraged the reading of the Bible verse John 3:16 “censored” Jesus Christ while ignoring objectionable material, Media Research Center president L. Brent Bozell III said. “Any censorship of Christianity is analogous to anti-Christian bigotry,”… Read More ›
Glimpsing the Cosmic Dance
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho,… Read More ›
John Cassian on Prayer
John Cassian was born about 360 in Dobrogea , located in the Danube delta in what is modern Romania. Somewhat atypically for an Eastern Christian, his native language was Latin. He entered a Bethlehem monastery in his early twenties but spent many years as a visitor among the desert fathers in Egypt. He next shows… Read More ›
Journaling
Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas… Read More ›
Writing
If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men–you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself… Read More ›