Quotes Tagged With :benedictine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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