Weekly Word

Amma Syncletica said, “Just as a treasure exposed is quickly spent, so also any virtue which becomes famous or well-publicized vanishes.

“O snail, climb Mount Fuji/ But slowly, slowly,” the haiku master Issa writes.

“Never, ever, throw anything in the water,” my father taught me when we were out fishing, pop bottles and sandwich wrappers all over the bottom of the little skiff.

The fact is that all the great spiritual models of the ages before us found themselves, at one point or another, plunged into doubt, into darkness, into the certainty of uncertainty: Augustin

Friendship is a holy thing, but it is not an easy thing. Love and friendship take us out of ourselves, yes. And that is certainly a good thing.

Unfortunately, the vision of Jesus the Prophet has become quite domesticated over the centuries.

Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time.

The nice thing about the human body is that it wears out. It wears down.

July 22 is the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, “the apostle to the apostles.”

July 22 is the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, “the apostle to the apostles.”

On July 11, we celebrate the feast of St. Benedict of Nursia.

One of the great Benedictine virtues is “enoughness.” The interesting thing about enoughness is that it is not imbued in the monastic by a chart or canon of weights and measures, as in  “You m

In a culture where change is swift and common, in a world where movement is global and given, in a society where three careers and two marriages are commonplace, the very notion of fidelity s

Changing the way we go about life is not all that difficult. We all do it all the time. We change jobs, states, houses, relationships, lifestyles over and over again as the years go by.