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August 2010

August 06, 2010

A Benedictine Community Copes

Sr. Denise Mosier, OSB + 2010 This is so worth reading. In the midst of...

July 2010

July 11, 2010

July 11th St. Benedict

Benedict this morning Since it is July 11th, and I am his spiritual daughter, I...

July 05, 2010

Tumbling Empires & the Taming Church

In the late 1970's the genial science historian James Burke wrote and presented a ten-part...

June 2010

June 01, 2010

Get the Lead Out!

Abbey of St. Walburga Mother Maria-Michael Newe, OSB, in a conference to the nuns at...

June 01, 2010

June 1st Resolution; ora AT labora – UPDATED

The motto of the Benedictines is ora et labora; pray and work. In his Holy...

May 2010

May 17, 2010

A Plethora of Nun Pictures – UPDATED

Suspecting that only Carolina Cannonball is more fixated than I on all things nun-ish, I...

May 13, 2010

Nun News: New Novice!

Our good friends, the Dominican Nuns of Summit, New Jersey (who have added lovely lilac...

April 2010

April 28, 2010

St. Anselm, Bishop & Doctor -UPDATED

A prayer of St. Anselm: “Come now, little man, turn aside for a while from...

April 16, 2010

John Allen; definitive on Benedict, Scandals

The great John Allen, perhaps the best English-language reporter on the Vatican beat, does yeoman's...

April 14, 2010

Benedictine Women, Beautifully Revealed

Photographer Robert Falcetti's collection of photographs taken at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis is...

January 2010

January 08, 2010

Young Women of Good Intention

I'm going to ask a favor of my readers who pray, to keep the intentions...

October 2009

October 30, 2009

"Why does 'green' have to look so Commie?"

Got that question in an email today along with this link to a story and...

October 21, 2009

St. Catherine & Me!

For a Benedictine, I do seem to write an awful lot about Dominicans and particularly...

September 2009

September 03, 2009

The Leadership Void; we need St. Benedict

Deacon Greg sent this my way, noting, "this is extraordinary, and the piece mentions you,...

July 2009

July 30, 2009

"I Love My Life"

I don't know why it is but my nightstand drawers routinely get filled and then...

June 2009

June 19, 2009

Weakness is sown; strength rises up – Repost

Continuing with the idea shared by reader Mark S, I have decided it might be...

June 16, 2009

"I come from a long line of depressed Germans…"

I was going to hang on to this piece and save it for an upcoming...

May 2009

May 15, 2009

What is your favorite psalm?

I actually meant to talk about psalms yesterday, but somehow that post, almost from the...

May 14, 2009

Oblates, Tertiaries, Professed Laypeople

I was corresponding with a Dominican nun the other day and I joked with her...

March 2009

March 25, 2009

Saintly Relics, Babylon & Nimrod

As a Benedictine Oblate, it was with great joy that I read this article on...

February 2009

February 24, 2009

Lenten Reading Suggestions

Julie at Happy Catholic has her Lenten reading list up. "Wait a minute, what? You...

January 2009

January 17, 2009

Flattered & Blushing linkaround – UPDATED

Amazing footage: US Air Splashdown. Watching those people evacuate is really something. Thank God for...

January 09, 2009

Friday Linkaround

Quiet today. After gabbing and watching videos through the night, we put Buster on a...

December 2008

December 12, 2008

Incarnation: "The Mystery IS the Gift…"

Have you ever read something and then said, "damn, I wish I'd written that? I...

November 2008

November 18, 2008

Holding on to what?

I like this short lesson from Abbess Maria-Michael Newe, OSB, of St. Walburga's Abbey of...

November 17, 2008

Guns, Bailouts, Gitmo and Soap

Retreat was excellent, but I need to process it a little before I write about...

October 2008

October 22, 2008

Oct 22 Morning Prayer

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart,...

October 10, 2008

Mornings are for Prayer & Study

That's actually a Dominican in the picture, but "ora et labora" is the motto of...

October 03, 2008

The DC Nuke & the Saving Monks

Random Thoughts is writing about what is happening to her finances. No one has defended...

September 2008

September 30, 2008

Vespers for Sept 30

Wow, this was kind of a fun Office, tonight, on this feast of the curmudgeonly...