At home at the monastery Manny and Jessica Archuleta have a blog called Every Home a Monastery. That name reflects the central purpose of their life together as a married couple and parents of children — “striving to live the Christian... Read More...
A Gregorian corollary to the Benedict Option It can be far too easy to project onto the Benedict Option a rose-colored nostalgia for a simpler, pre-industrial medieval past: a cozy escape into the world of craft beer and Brother Cadfael.
We need the Marines The insignia of the military remind other Americans of the costs of their manner of life. The habit of the religious life is similar.
Prayer, dependence, and grace For the Augustinian Friars, a religious order founded in the thirteenth century, the grace and transforming love of God begins with God and extends from God to humanity, rather than humanity building a ladder, a route that ends only back with humanity and false idols.
Schools of charity? Tell me more. Monasticism can, and should, be a model for the "priesthood of all believers."
