July 11, 2022
Subiaco, Italy, 2015 It was the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre who said, “We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.” We exist, rather unknowingly, he said, in a new dark age, and so he invoked a figure from the past, this saint whose beginning we’ve come to see.
July 10, 2022
I can’t say I feel all that fit to preach today, given how I failed this gospel just a few days ago.
July 3, 2022
Paul said the time would come, a time when people would no longer “tolerate sound doctrine” but rather follow their own “desires” and “curiosity,” listening no longer to the truth but instead to “myths.”[1] Jesus too—he didn’t suggest his followers would be all that successful in their preaching either. The “world hates you,” he told his […]
June 26, 2022
There’s a story I’ve always liked of an old Egyptian monk, from about 1,400 years ago, living in what today is called Wadi al Natrun, southwest of the city of Alexandria. He stepped out of his cell one night and saw the devil himself handing out gardening implements to all the other monks—shovels, spades, a scythe […]
June 19, 2022
It should change everything, what we do here.
May 29, 2022
I keep thinking of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, what he said once, that, “The wicked walk round in circles.”[1]