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posted 3:56:18pm Jun. 21, 2012 | read full post »

Lent: The Perfect Time to Work with Anxious Concern to Achieve Salvation
Work with anxious concern to achieve your salvation. It is God Who, in His good will toward you, begets in you any measure of desire or achievement. In everything you do, act without grumbling or arguing; prove yourselves innocent and straightforward, children of God without reproach (Philippians 2.

posted 9:00:09pm Feb. 29, 2012 | read full post »

Joyfully Awaiting the Lord’s Coming with a Brave Heart
To receive the joy of Christmas, we must deny ourselves courageously, which enables us to bow low humbly to receive the Infant King from the manger of the cattle stall to the manger of our hearts. If our hearts are clean of any sin that would block His royal entry into the deepest secret of our hear

posted 10:35:40am Dec. 21, 2011 | read full post »

Lectio divina: Entering into Loving Encounter with Our Living Lord
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading … On Sunday also let all devote themselves to reading, except those who are appointed to the various functions. But if anyone should be so careless and

posted 11:48:30am Aug. 23, 2011 | read full post »

St Benedict, the Theology of the Body and Human Love
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyXh_EvAdIo[/youtube] At the beginning of the fourth chapter of his Rule, Saint Benedict emphasizes the primary importance of love as the greatest instrument, and indeed the goal, of every good work his monks would seek to accomplish:  First of all, love t

posted 4:52:48pm Jun. 29, 2011 | read full post »