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by bcadmin | Feb 17, 2022 | Benedictine oblate, Judith Valente, Monasticism, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
When Judith Valente, a Benedictine oblate, leads contemplative retreats both online and in monasteries around the country, she has been noticing that laypeople — whether Catholic or spiritual-but-not-religious, married or unmarried, male or female — outnumber the monks and sisters about three to one.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 8, 2022 | Church History, Monasticism, News | 0 |
The young curé of Georges Bernanos’ The Diary of a Country Priest (1937) ruminates about monks (Carthusian and Trappist): What miracle enables these semi-lunatics, these prisoners of their own dreams, these sleepwalkers, apparently to enter more deeply each day into the pain of others? An odd sort of dream, an unusual opiate which, far from turning him back into himself and isolating him from his fellows, unites the individual with mankind in the spirit of universal charity!
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2021 | Downside, Editorials, Magazine, Monasticism, News | 0 |
In this issue, we celebrates the extraordinary life and vocation of Dom Joseph Coombe-Tennant, who died at the age of 76 in 1989. His mother was a noted psychic and he was born – named Henry – as a result of her conviction that a former spiritualist mentor wanted her to have a child by
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 24, 2021 | Cistercians, From the Archives, Malcolm Muggeridge, monastery life, Monasticism, News, Top Story | 0 |
Journalist and eccentric Christian Malcolm Muggeridge visits a monastery during lambing season and thinks of the fantastic moment when men first saw their God in the likeness of a lamb.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 28, 2021 | Bose, Ecumenism, Monasticism, News, The Dispatch | 0 |
On February, 18, 2021, the following statement was posted on the Monastery of Bose page: “With deep bitterness the community of Bose took note that Br. Enzo did not go to Cellole within the time indicated by the Pontifical Delegate’s Decree of January …
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