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Showing posts with label monastery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monastery. Show all posts
11.7.20

Feast of Saint Benedict — Photos of Work and Community from My Time as a Benedictine Monk (c. 2004)

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Today is the feast day of Saint Benedict of Nursia, famous cenobite who, 1,500 years ago, carved out a rule for people to live together in c...
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21.3.18

How I Learned to Love Solitude and Why I Am No Longer a Benedictine Monk

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I am going through old papers, tossing out papers, and boxing up books so I can move out of my apartment on April first. Saint Joseph Abb...
12.8.11

On Whiskey Bottles, Trail Mix and Walker Percy

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In this post, I recount a story of when I found a bottle with a message tucked inside of it. Shaking Off a Feeling of Emptiness    Do...
24.7.11

Poem: A Monk Reads at Table

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image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art at table reading, our minds most likely a cacophony of invective, misery, and lower bac...
30.8.10

Memento: When I Was a Benedictine Postulant

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A page from my scrapbook that dates from circa 2002 My Life Circa 2002 Taken from a page of my scrapbook dated circa 2002 — I had jus...
11.9.09

An Interview with My Former Self (When I Was a Benedictine Monk)

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When I was a Benedictine monk, I was interviewed by a high school student for his school project.  His teacher had asked him to interview a ...
21.5.05

The Bread Run: When I Delivered Loaves of Bread for Pennies for Bread

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The loaves are already “stacked to the back” of our Ford delivery truck in the morning before we leave. The bread was baked the day before...
11.7.04

Of Carmelites and African Greys

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Brother Gabriel Rivet, OSB In a mostly abandoned seminary building, I climb a flight of stairs, pass two meowing cats, and knock on the...
10.7.03

Video: First Profession of a Benedictine Monk

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"Accept me Lord as you have promised so that I may live and let me not be put to shame in my hope" Psalm 31:17 I...