Tag: Jamison
September Meeting for Oblates
Oblates will meet in September on the 16th, the third Sunday of the month, and will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Gallagher Room. First and second year novices will meet at 2:30 p.m. in the Gallagher Room to discuss the coming year’s reading material. First year novices need to obtain a copy of Finding… Read More ›
“Keeping Friends” and Social Isolation
This is part two of a selection from Finding Happiness, Monastic Steps for a Fulfilling Life by Abbot Christopher Jamison. Click here to read part one. There is one disturbing fact that goes against the flow of this youthful view of happiness: in Britain and America, suicide rates among adults have been falling in recent… Read More ›
Keeping Friends in Today’s Culture
[With] the younger generation, …. Happiness is achieved by having not only a circle of friends but also the technology that enables constant communication with them. Text messages and mobile phone calls, emails and social networking websites, these are essential parts of this friendship culture. As well as holding friends together, this personal communications technology… Read More ›
Christopher Jamison: The Pope has a friend in Father Christopher
The Vatican may be mired in scandal, but, in Sussex this Easter, TV’s favourite monk is a model of faith and hope. Peter Stanford meets Christopher Jamison. The Independent, April4, 2010. Abbot Christopher Jamison’s knack for revealing a more enticing side of religion in general, and his own Roman Catholic Church in particular, is well-known…. Read More ›
Wrestle with One’s Demons
When they spend time in solitude and in silence, people inevitably have to wrestle with their own demons. Indeed, that very phrase to “wrestle with one’s demons” is derived from the fathers and mothers of the desert tradition. They speak quite literally of the forces of evil that will tempt the solitary monk or nun… Read More ›
Individuality and Community
Benedict wants a community where people can express individuality rather than individualism. Individualism is simply doing your own thing in your own way and blanking out other people. Individuality involves bringing your particular contribution to bear on the life of the community, even if that is a difficult contribution for others to accept; for example,… Read More ›