Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

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We are exhausting vital pure spiritual energy

We live in a society that tries to keep us dazzled with euphoria in a bright cloud of lively and joy-loving slogans. Yet nothing is more empty and more dead, nothing is more insultingly insincere and destructive than the vapid grins on the billboards and the moron beatitudes in the magazines which assure us that… Read More ›

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Alienation

If we want to understand alienation, we have to find where its deepest taproot goes and we have to realize that this root will always be there. Alienation is inseparable from culture, from civilization, and from life in society. It is not just a feature of “bad” cultures, “corrupt” civilizations, or urban society. It is… Read More ›

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