Catholic Benedictine Sisters of St. Mary Monastery, Rock Island, Ill., blog with inquirers discerning their religious calling to monastic life.
Posted in keating on Oct 21st, 2011
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end. Lamentations 3:22 Most of the time I think we live in a obsessive-compulsive world. Go, go, go – more, more, more seems rather routine attitude. I don’t exclude myself from this. I can get dead set on the task, idea [...]
Posted in keating on Oct 14th, 2011
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matt 7:7 So often when I pray with Matthew it comes down to trusting in God. While we can be sure God will answer our prayers and open new paths as we need, [...]
Posted in keating on Oct 10th, 2011
Have you ever referred to someone as ‘a good person’? I have, and then I have thought to myself, what does that mean? Is a person ‘good’ because they treat me well, or are easy to work with, or perhaps just have a pleasing nature about them? Keating says this fruit of the Spirit is [...]
Posted in keating on Sep 21st, 2011
“Help me to learn God’s gentle way.” Keating refers to the fruit of gentleness as ”our participation in God’s way of doing things at once gentle and firm….”
Posted in keating on Sep 5th, 2011
There are many distractions and temptations that can lead us astray from our intentions. In his description of faithfulness, Thomas Keating describes the “daily oblation of ourselves and all our actions to God.” This phrase strikes me because it speaks of the intentional effort we must make to pray for strength and to turn all [...]
Posted in keating on Aug 21st, 2011
Meekness has always been a difficult fruit for me to accept. Too often I have associated it with being kind of wimpish; being unable to speak up or stand up for oneself. A meek person, in my book, was huddled in the corner in fear. When I began to read Thomas Keating, I began to [...]