Oblates of St. Mary Monastery, Rock Island, Ill., blog about Benedictine values, prayer and life.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2012
Because Psalm 24 is one of the psalms we read every day for a whole week at a stretch, this past week I decided not to follow my usual temptation to skip it after one day, but to keep reading it first each morning and see what I saw differently by doing this. The first [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 13th, 2012
The letters O.S.B. after a name don’t usually suggest radical thinking to me. My mistake.
Posted in Baptism of Jesus, Epiphany, Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2012
Unlike Advent and Lent, the season of Epiphany doesn’t invite introspection or conscious spiritual development for many of us. And western Christians have ironically let this day of starlight be eclipsed by New Year’s and by a return to our post-holiday routines. Post-expectations, the light shines on us as we somewhat wearily resume our ordinary [...]
Posted in Benedictine values on Jan 9th, 2012
Happy New Year. Welcome to Presidential Campaign 2012. Angry is the new happy. The Occupy Wall Street folks are angry at corporations. The Tea Party is angry at the government. The American public is angry at the Muslim world. The Muslim world is angry at the United States. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are angry [...]