Quotes Tagged With :benedictine

To pray in the midst of the mundane is simply and strongly to assert that this dull and tiring day is....

It was a music of the spirit, seeking peace, not emotional release, expressing the hunger of the soul....

The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I....

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places....

Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places....

People are always changing themselves and their world, dear. Very few of the changes are new. We rather....

The usual notion of prayer is so absurd. How can those who know nothing about it, who pray little or....

Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the....

It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of....