Tag: way of life
Monk-reformer St. Peter Damian celebrated Feb. 21
Denver, Colo., Feb 19, 2012 / 09:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Feb. 21, Catholics honor Saint Peter Damian, a Benedictine monk who strove to purify the Church during the early years of its second millennium. In his Sept. 9, 2009 general audience on the saint, Pope Benedict XVI described him as “one of the most… Read More ›
Benedictine sisters start community in Mount Holly, NC
MOUNT HOLLY — In a simple little home in Mount Holly – with the looks of the typical American dream: two stories and a two-car garage – something more than the American dream is being realized for a budding community of sisters following the Rule of St. Benedict. On Feb. 9, they were acknowledged by… Read More ›
Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.
After John had been arrested, Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God: “This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” As he passed by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea; they… Read More ›
Unfrozen: Gospel Reaches the ‘End of the World’
YAMAL PENINSULA, Russia – Imagine living in a place where temperatures often plummet to minus 60 degrees and winter seems to last all year. In the northernmost parts of Siberia, Peter Khudi is braving the frigid temperatures to share the gospel with remote tribes. The Yamal Peninsula sits in the deep frozen Siberian Tundra above the… Read More ›
A wonder
I find it a wonder how we as a species seem to live out the same pattern over and over again, generation after generation without seeming to be able to change or learn. Well perhaps we are learning but it seems at such a pace that it may be too late to save us. I… Read More ›
Turning Point
Choices are very important, for they give directions to out lives and allow focus to result. Moments of choice are important for without them life can become something meaningless, leading nowhere, just endless cycles of the same. Important as our choices are, they also cause other avenues that could have been chosen to be put… Read More ›
They are all going into the Kingdom
There was an old man living in the desert who served God for so many years and he said, “Lord, let me know if I have pleased you.” He saw an angel who said to him, “You have not yet become like the gardener in such and such place.” The old man marveled and said,… Read More ›
The Active and the Contemplative Life
“A person consists of a soul and body, and therefore his life’s path should consist of both physical and spiritual activities — of deeds and contemplation. “The path of an active life consists of fasting, abstinence, vigilance, kneeling, prayer and other physical feats, composing the strait and sorrowful path which, by the word of God,… Read More ›
Contemplative Prayer
Contemplation becomes a way of life. I don’t like to think of it so much as something I do but something I am, so I often use the phrase-the contemplative stance. It’s a way of living, moving, and being in this world. I fully admit that we don’t live all of our twenty-four hours there…. Read More ›
Discipleship and a Call to Repentance
The following sermon was given by Fr. Agostino Fernandez, OSB, at the Abbey Basilica on January 25, 2009. While addressed to the general audience present, it is also very applicable to Oblates: “Like the disciples, we must leave our nets, the familarity of our former ways of living, and follow the call we have heard… Read More ›