July 03, 2022
Summer Interns have arrived! We are hosting three young women in June and July and two more in August. The women come from different backgrounds and educations: this summer, several interns have come to us from divinity schools around the country. At Redwoods, they participate in a different sort of school, a schola caritas (school of charity), as our founding Cistercian fathers of the 11th century called monastic life.
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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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August 10, 2022
Feast of Saint Lawrence
Saint: Saint Lawrence, Deacon, Martyr (-258)
Readings of the Day
Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 57 The Artisans of the Monastery
Mass: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Resp Ps 112; Jn 12:24-26
The upright generation shall be blessed.
MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,HEART OF MARY, TABERNACLE OF GOD INCARNATION,PRAY FOR US.
Whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.(2 Cor 9:6)
So that in all things God ... Read More