Weekly Word

There were two old monks who lived together for many years and they had never quarreled.

Loving God, You who dwell in our hearts,
make for us a cave there
in which to hear your voice more distinctly,
feel your care more tenderly,
understand your will more clearly,

The first time I went to Rome, experienced the intrigues of the Curia, saw the politics of the system, watched the maneuverings of national clerical alliances, and realized how helpless women

To close ourselves off from the wisdom of the world around us in the name of God is a kind of spiritual arrogance exceeded by little else in the human lexicon of errors.

In most monasteries, as in most marriages, we celebrate our silver and golden anniversaries of final profession.

As a Sufi story teaches, "There are those in winter who, calling themselves religious, say, 'I shall not wear warm clothes.

Every afternoon, as I sit in my upstairs office, I hear the old monastery bells begin to ring in the once Benedictine church that then adjoined this inner-city monastery.

The Feast of the Annunciation is observed today, since the traditional feast date (March 25th) fell in Holy Week this year. 

“The tomb was empty,” the Scriptures say, metaphorically perhaps but pointedly, nevertheless.

Everyone who has ever lived, who will ever live, will someday undergo a Holy Saturday of their own.

The feast of the transitus of Saint Benedict is celebrated on March 21.

Everyone has hard days.

"There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance, there will be no justice," writes Arundhati Roy.

Ash Wednesday signals the beginning of that season of the church year that is most commonly associated with penance. But there is a danger lurking in that definition.

The Feast of Scholastica, the founder of Benedictine life for women, is observed on February 10.