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• Florida was great!

  
  Casa Santa Lidia — Authority: 110
  Thank you Mother Gertrude, O.S.B., and the Queen of Peace monastery. Ave Maria, Florida, a most interesting place!
  2 days ago

• Leonard of Noblac

  
  The Ohio Anglican.blog — Authority: 135
  Leonard of Noblac or of Limoges or de Noblet (also known as Lienard, Linhart, Leonhard, Léonard, Leonardo) (died traditionally in 559), according to the romance that accrued to his name recorded in an 11th-century vita, was a Frankish noble in the court of Clovis I. He was converted to Christianity along with the ...
  4 days ago

• You have been warned

  
  On An Overgrown Path — Authority: 425
  Holy health and safety at Mount Saint Bernard Abbey , in Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. The Aeolian String Quartets recording of the complete Haydn quartets, which featured in Unlocking the Sound Of Vinyl , includes The Seven Last Words interspersed with readings by Peter Pears . Using spoken texts with ...
  1 week ago

• New Monastic Blog. A Benedictine oblate blog

  
  Oblate Blog — Authority: 114
  Monastic Ponderings is new blog I enjoy reading and... well.. pondering. Here are several of the most recent blog titles: In the Garden of the Soul The Journey Inner Spirit The truth about Community life Penthos Every one is a clear view into the life of seeking God. __________________________ Footnotes: Picture ...
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• Monastic deserts are uninhabited not uninhabitable. A Benedictine oblate blog

  
  Oblate Blog — Authority: 114
  CityDesert — “Desert Spirituality for the City” — is a new-to-me blog that is well worth reading. The “desert” homes of the early desert fathers may have been more like uninhabited remote areas that were actually fit for the support of life and not the completely barren wastelands that I sometimes ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Silence

  
  Work-in-Progress — Authority: 108
  I wrote this while on retreat at Holy Cross Abbey two weeks ago and decided to capture it here.I come to the Abbey for silence, and I am overdue for a big slice of the stuff. My “week” of retreat began on Monday afternoon and will conclude on Friday morning. That’s four precious nights, and I know they [...]
  2 weeks ago

• American Hindu monk opens India’s first surfing ashram near Mangalore

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Mangalore (Karnataka), Oct.19 (ANI): The world’s first surfing swami has set his sights on popularizing the pursuit across the Indian subcontinent, a land he claims has waves as attractive as those in the surfing mecca of Hawaii. Swami Bhakti Gaurava Narasingha, 64, an American Hindu monk who has been living in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Real Healthcare Reform: A Medical Mission to *America*

  
  American Red Tory — Authority: 108
  I’ve previously advocated for a religious order of lawyers and inspiring Orthodox Christians to similar kinds of social service/ philanthropia .  (Of course, a religion doesn’t have to be Catholic or Orthodox to do these kinds of things. Do they?) Well, as I’ve pointed out, one of Catholicism’s great ...
  3 weeks ago

• Teresa of Avila

  
  The Ohio Anglican.blog — Authority: 135
  The third child of Don Alonso Sanchez de Cepeda by his second wife, Doña Beatriz Davila y Ahumada, who died when the saint was in her fourteenth year, Teresa was brought up by her saintly father, a lover of serious books, and a tender and pious mother. After her death and the marriage of her eldest sister, Teresa was ...
  3 weeks ago

• KISS

  
  Work-in-Progress — Authority: 108
  I was on silent retreat at a monastery last week (and intend to post a few reflections about that later). Each evening I would check in with my husband via cell phone as I walked to the chapel for Compline, which is the closing prayer service of the day, at 7:30. One evening as I walked through [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Abbey

  
  Country Contemplative — Authority: 106
  Yesterday, I spent part of the day driving to Abbey of the Geneseee. It’s one of my favorite haunts and I hadn’t been there in at least a month. Since today was a holiday there were a few more people than are normally there on a Monday. The store was busy and now the monks have a cashier who is there to take the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Trappist Monk canonized today: St. Rafael Arnaiz Baron

  
  Da Mihi Animas — Authority: 510
  A young Trappist Monk was among the 5 canonized today! Very rarely does a trappist have their cause moved forward due to the nature of their humble lives. Here is the Catholic News Agency story: Vatican City ( CNA ) .- The Congregation for the Causes of the Saints has approved the miracle of the inexplicable ...
  4 weeks ago

• The sounds of silence

  
  On An Overgrown Path — Authority: 425
  Timeless purity, peerless beauty and spiritual ambiance ... is a perfect description of the Cistercian LAbbaye de Boquen in Brittany, which is seen in my photos below. But those words also apply to the riveting archive image above which depicts Dom Alexis Presse (1883-1965) who was responsible for the 20th ...
  4 weeks ago

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