Category: Spiritual Reading

Learn then to profit of the time which God in his mercy gives you.

The worms, after having consumed all the flesh, devour one another.

I thank Thee for not having taken me out of life when I was Thy enemy.

The Abbot should “temper all things that the strong may have something to strive after, and the weak may not fall back in dismay.”

This symbolic way of reading the liturgy has deep roots in the Apocalypse of John, and is nothing less than the monastic habit of lectio divina applied to the liturgy.

Listen how she says to you from the foot of the Cross, where she is sorrowfully attending the last agonies of her dying Son, “Behold, I am your Mother.”

Rise thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee. –Ephesians v. 14 We Catholics live in a world that is weary of itself and awaits liberation. A new calendar year dawns, and yet the same …

“I had not forgotten my promise to consider whether we should make the patient an extreme patriot or an extreme pacifist. All extremes except extreme devotion to the Enemy are to be encouraged,” writes C. S. Lewis’s infamous demon Screwtape …