About Catholicism… Stat Crux dum volvitur orbis – the Cross stands while the world revolves. 6 Jul 2020July 6, 2020 ‘The cross stands while the world revolves’. This apophthegm of the Carthusian Order has many layers of interpretation. The saying helps make sense of the suffering and sometimes death of…
Benedictine… Meditations on Hope 13 Jun 2020 Speaking about hope these days may seem somewhat out of place. A discordant note. Nevertheless we are called to give an account for the hope that lives within us; of…
About Catholicism… Facing Down the Wolf – A Gay Priest’s Vocation 10 Jun 2020June 11, 2020 [We thought you might find this article of interest. The LGBTQ issue if one may call it that is a subject that we have never openly discussed or mentioned on…
About Catholicism… Poetry and the Contemplative Life 9 Jun 2020 Commonwealth Magazine, Issue July 4, 1947. By Thomas Merton The term “contemplative life" is one that is much mistreated. It is more often used than defined, and that is…
Catholic Saints… Charles de Foucauld and the value of the Holy Family 25 Apr 2020 Over a century had passed since the death of Viscount Charles Eugène de Foucauld a former cavalry officer in the French Army, then an explorer and geographer, and finally a…
Easter… Easter Message 2020 12 Apr 2020April 12, 2020 My dearest sisters and brothers in Christ. The Gospels tell us that the risen Jesus meets people, like his disciples, locked in the house out of fear and in tears;…
Easter… Holy Week with the Family during COVID19 and a Message from Dom. Ugo-Maria 7 Apr 2020 † Laudetur Iesus Christus, et Maria Immaculata. The hermit of San Bruno is offering everyone some assistance so as "not to give up their Easter Obligations of prayer and celebration,…
Liturgy… A Message for the hero’s on the Coronavirus frontline 31 Mar 2020 A word of encouragement for those on battling on the frontlines of Coronavirus, Doctors, nurses, health workers, scientists, community workers, pharmacists, carers and the neighbours who simply ask “are you…
About Catholicism… Praying from the Depths of the Psalms… 31 Mar 2020 The Ground Zero of Prayer “Deep Calls to Deep” —Psalm 42:7 By Rev. John Henry Hanson, O.Praem. St. Gregory of Narek, a 10th Century Armenian monk and the Church’s most…
