Monastic life, like all religious life,
is above all a historical response
and not a prefabricated model. The
Spirit is constant and changing at once,
like life, like history, and we must let it
change us for this era. We ought not
confuse stability with the rigidity of
cadavers.
--Simon Pedro Arnold, OSB |
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Highlights from the Fall/Winter 2005 Bulletin
"... people in the West have assumed that what characterizes us as human is our ability to reason in a detached manner..." (more)
"At the beginning of July, the entire community spent a day at the diocesan center with Bishop Kenneth Angell, bishop of Burlington, and... " (more)
"Simple vows. Yes, but when I think about the experience of that day, the day of my first monastic profession at Weston... " (more)
"If our Church is to be, indeed, "catholic," then we all, hierarchy and lower-archy, have to have the courage to leave our secure perches ..." (more)
"To our delight, throughout the summer we could hear and see the bees busily working the apple blossoms and finding their way... " (more)
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