Tag: reading
In the time you spend on social media each year, you could read 200 books
Somebody once asked Warren Buffett about his secret to success. Buffett pointed to a stack of books and said, Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will… When I first found this… Read More ›
Pope targets worldly Church as biggest threat
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… Read More ›
Angels? Angels! Do they exist?
Of course. But like all phenomena, we must be cautious. Also, open. Back in 2007 one man named Scott from Rockford, Michigan told a site devoted to the miraculous, “I was reading your web site, and wanted to share this photo of a angel with my son [left]. “This picture was taken the afternoon before my son… Read More ›
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 ›
Suggested Reading for Lent
“On the days of Lent, from morning until the end of the third hour let them apply themselves to their reading, and from then until the end of the tenth hour let them do the work assigned them. And in these days of Lent they shall each receive a book from the library, which they… Read More ›
Reading St. Bernard
This is a continuation of an interview with Fr. Michael Casey, OSCO January, 2010. Br Chris: Do you think that Saint Bernard is over emphasized amongst the other Cistercian Fathers? It seems that he has the pride of place in Cistercian monasteries, over and above our other Cistercian Fathers. Fr Michael Casey: Well, as I… Read More ›
Reading the Cistercian Fathers
This is a continuation of an interview with Fr. Michael Casey, OSCO January, 2010. Br Chris: How do you recommend reading the Cistercian Fathers? Fr Michael Casey: It depends on the individual. Some people you give them a reading list and they read it, other people you give them a reading list and they don’t… Read More ›
The Purpose of Reading
Reading should serve prayer, should dispose the affections, should neither devour the hours nor gobble up the moments of prayer. When you read you are taught about Christ, but when you pray you join him in familiar colloquy. How much more enchanting is the grace of speaking with him than about him! Gilbert of Hoyland
If you do not strive, you will not find
Look what good things occur to someone as a result of divine care! Sometimes, when a person is on his knees at the time of prayer, with his hands outspread or extended heavenwards, his eyes gazing on the Cross, and with the whole movement of his mind, as it were, stretched towards God in entreaty,… Read More ›
Speaking with Jesus about Jesus
Reading should serve prayer, should dispose the affections, should neither devour the hours nor gobble up the moments of prayer. When you read you are taught about Christ, but when you pray you join him in familiar colloquy. How much more enchanting is the grace of speaking with him than about him! Gilbert of Hoyland