Is God calling you to religious life? jerichotree.com/2015/02/08/is-… via Jericho Tree

If we would have more of God's life, we must give away more of ourselves.

Evangelizing Out of the Encounter | Word on Fire shar.es/1oNlqf via ShareThis

The Ark, the Mass, and Re-Ordering the World | Word on Fire shar.es/1Wulnw via ShareThis

The Ten Commandments | Word on Fire shar.es/1f3crK via ShareThis

How many Catholics can actually recite the ten commandments, the basis of the moral life?

Monks process everywhere, as a reminder that we are helping each other to go somewhere. Our faith is a procession going somewhere.

Karl Rahner said, 'there are no finished symphonies in this life'. We are never complete until we are playing with the symphony of God.

Monastic stability challenges the secular idea that to 'grow up' we must 'grow away'.

'Our doing brings success, but our being bears fruit.' Henri Nouwen

'A blessing is the visible, perceptible, effective proximity of God.' D Bonhoeffer

All prayer has its foundation essentially in 'asking'. We are in need of everything, and only God can give us what we need.

We are good at saying, 'Listen, Lord, your servant is speaking.' But we must learn to say, 'Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.'

The backdrop of the world is noise. Silence lives in the cloister of all our hearts. Let us listen with the ear of the heart.

'Padre Pio made me doubt my disbelief.' Graham Greene

'Mercy is the very foundation of the Church's life.' Pope Francis Misericordiae Vultus para 10

@FrChrisJamison BBC Radio 2 Dear Fr Christopher, heard you in the car today by chance. It was excellent. Especially the confession!

Douai Abbey looking resplendent for our workshop with the Cecilia Consort!