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Holy contradictions: commemorating Thomas Merton

December 10, 2020 By Mary Lee Wile 3 Comments

Back when my middle-aged sons were little boys, another young mom from church handed me a copy of Thomas Merton’s Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, […]

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Of letting someone else care and pray for you: an Ode to Emily Malbone Morgan

February 27, 2020 By Kit Lonergan 2 Comments

“My greatest desire,” Emily Malbone Morgan wrote, “has always been to make tired people rested and happy.”

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Silence and Slow Time: honoring Richard Meux Benson and Charles Gore, monks and mystics

January 14, 2020 By Mary Lee Wile Leave a Comment

Students found the idea of a week in silence more alarming than a week detoxing from substance abuse, but as full time high school English teachers, my husband and I treasured the time in silence and prayer.

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Why I Go On Retreat

October 3, 2016 By Pamela Lewis 5 Comments

Every July, I spend four days in almost complete silence at Holy Cross Monastery.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Benedictine, discipleship, Holy Cross Monastery, Order of the Holy Cross, peace, renewal, retreat

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