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WISDOM: Work, by Joan Chittister
From Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light One of the elders said: “I never wanted work which was useful to me but a loss to others. For I have this expectation, that what helps the...
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WISDOM: Xenophilia—The Love of Strangers, by Joan Chittister
From Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light Amma Sarah said: “If I pray to God that all people might be inspired because of me, I would find myself repentant at the door of every...
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WISDOM: Yearning, by Joan Chittister
From Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light Abba Nilus said: “Do not want things to turn out as they seem best to you but as God pleases. Then you will be free of confusion and...
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WISDOM: Zeal, by Joan Chittister
From Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, “Abba Joseph, as far as I am able I say my little office, I keep my little fasts, I pray my...
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WISDOM: Across The Centuries, by Joan Chittister
From Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light Abba Anthony said: “The time is coming when people will be insane, and when they see someone who is not insane, they will attack that person...
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SATURDAY READING: Listening, by Esther de Waal
From Seeking God: The Way of Saint Benedict How great is the freedom to which you are called. Right at the start of the Rule of Saint Benedict had the vivid image of the crowded marketplace and the...
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LOVE: A Listening Heart, by Joan Chittister
From The Monastery of the Heart Listen carefully to my instructions…and attend to them with the ear of your heart. (The Rule of Saint Benedict) There is a magnet in a seeker’s heart whose true north is...
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NOTHINGNESS: Leisure As Silence, by Michael Casey
From Strangers to the City Leisure is not idleness or the pursuit of recreational activities. It is, above all, being attentive to the present moment, open to all its implications, living it to the...
View ArticleSERMON: Mystical Vineyards And The Prudence Of The Flesh by Bernard of Clairvaux
“They made me the keeper of the vineyards.” (Song of Solomon 1:6) Who are they? Do you mean those opponents to whom you recently referred? Listen and understand. Perhaps she is saying that she has...
View ArticlePOETRY: After The Night Office—Gethsemani Abbey by Thomas Merton
It is not yet the grey and frosty time When barns ride out of the night like ships: We do not see the Brothers, bearing lanterns, Sink in the quiet mist, As various as the spirits who, with lamps, are...
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