Ruminations of an Amateur Monastic
Or, putting the labora back into Ora et Labora One of my hobbies is book design. This is an honourable and ancient occupation of monks, and I worked at it long before I worked at amateur monasticism. I’ve gotten fairly proficient over the years, so I’m often asked to put together publications for folks. Currently, I’m working on two major […]
» Read moreThis story is breaking right now. Though many have expected for a long time, I doubt that many are actually prepared for it. POPE WILL BROADEN USE OF LATIN MASS Vatican, Oct. 11 (CWNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI is preparing to release a motu proprio extending permission for priests to celebrate the traditional Latin Mass, Vatican sources have confirmed. The […]
» Read moreThis week, I am praying with a new breviary. For the last year and more, I’ve been using the four volume Liturgy of the Hours. It is an immense blessing to my prayer life, particularly the Office of Readings (Matins), which has introduced me to the works of the Fathers and other Saints and to some of the Concillar documents. […]
» Read moreI am reminded of something I wrote in another forum this time last year. Not a thing has changed, except that the renovations are done, and I’ve finished the book. When Pope Urban IV established the Feast of Corpus Christi, he asked St. Thomas Aquinas to compose hymns for it. This is one of the five hymns Aquinas composed in […]
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