February 26, 2009
Well, it's now been 5 days since I got back from my annual retreat (see previous blog posts); 5 days since, like Peter, James + John in the account of the Transfiguration, Jesus invited me (not that I had much choice! :-) to come back down the mountain into the "world" and share with others the grac...
The Last Brother? Maybe God has other ideas....
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February 24, 2009
Director : Ang Lee Release Date : 22 December 2000 (USA) Genre : Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller Cast : Yun-Fat Chow as Master Li Mu Bai (as Chow Yun Fat), Michelle Yeoh as Yu Shu Lien, Ziyi Zhang as Jen Yu (Mandarin version) / Jiao Long (English dubbed version) (as Zhang Ziyi), Chen Cha...
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February 14, 2009
Well, tomorrow I leave for Brittany to do my annual retreat with about 30 other Brothers (all French) at the Benedictine monastery of Landevennec, situated on an isolated peninsula on the west coast of Finistère (Brittany, France). I've been on retreat there before a couple of times and there are s...
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February 07, 2009
Worth Abbey, the location for the enthralling and ultimately moving 2005 BBC 2 reality series "The Monastery" (see here and here) is the subject of the following article on the BBC News website. It discusses their taster weekends that they initiated in the aftermath of the tv series and the thousand...
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January 22, 2009
For a small fee, you can tour the underground catacombs of the Capuchin monastery in Palermo, Sicily, where 2,000 well-dressed but decaying bodies, mostly from the 19th c., are on display. Nobody knows exactly why they have been preserved. From the February issue of National Geogra...
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December 26, 2008
The third part of a story by Brian Doyle in Best Catholic Writing 2007 on The Sisters of Mount Angel (return to the beginning of the story) Finally I gave my talk, singing and roaring, spinning stories, making jokes. I told them about barking “Point it down!� at my toddler twin sons when I was t...
A Nun's Life
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December 07, 2008
The facade of the Poor Claire Monastery After my confession with Bishop Jesus Y. Varela, DD and praying inside the Chapel I decided to roam around praying, meditating and appreciating the wonders of creation manifested in the Retreat House, El Retiro. Then I've noticed a nun walking on a separate ro...
The Splendor of the Church
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November 20, 2008
A Greek icon painting worth £1 million that had been cut into six pieces and smuggled out of the country to Britain has been returned to Athens....
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November 01, 2008
For those of us who can actually look at today as something other than another day closer to one winner and one loser, and the country holding it's breath to see what will happen...I offer this: Today is All Soul's Day, a day traditionally known as a day we stop to reflect and remember those ...
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September 30, 2008
Something that I have been thinking about for a time is a rule of faith. The benedictines and most monastic orders have them, but I have very much like the Rule of St Benedict. And so my church is currently looking to introduce this is a slightly different way. We would like to introduce it as missi...
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