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I have ascended to the highest in me, and look! The Lord is towering above that. In my curiosity I have descended to explore my lowest depths, yet I found God even deeper. If I looked outside myself, I saw God stretching beyond the furthest I could see; and if I looked within, God was yet further within. Then I knew the truth of what I had read, "In God we live and move and have our being."  

—Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian, 12th Century

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April 12, 2023
Easter Vigil 2023

Easter Vigil 2023

Jesus’ death is torture for me!

I prefer his life to his death....

While he was alive,

he brought only three dead persons back to life.

Now, thanks to his death,

all the dead come back to life,

and trample me

as they rush out through the gates of hell.

The 4th- century monk-poet St Ephrem the Syrian puts these words of grievance into the mouth of Death personified. Death is finally aggrieved! Alleluia!

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Monastic Internship Program

From Monastic Internship Program...

Every journey is a liminal space, an in-between time, spanning where I am now and where I hope to end up.  While a journey often involves some physical travel, a meaningful journey is accompanied by a displacement of a habitual dispositions and mindsets, while engaging an inner dimension.   ...

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Lectio Divina
June 04, 2023

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

June is the month of the Sacred Heart 

In other years: Saint Clotilde (575-545)

Readings of the Day

Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch  7:49-54 Humility

Mass: Ex 34:4b-6, 8-9; Resp Ps (Dn 3); 2 Cor 13:11-13; Jn 3:16-18

Glory and praise forever. 
MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,MARY, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH,MARY, MOTHER OF THE EUCHARIST,SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL,PRAY FOR US.
HOLY TRINITY, ONE ...

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