Yesterday, I spent part of the day driving to Abbey of the Geneseee. It’s one of my favorite haunts and I hadn’t been there in at least a month. Since today was a holiday there were a few more people than are normally there on a Monday. The store was busy and now the [...]
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Abbey
Posted in Spiritual, Trappist, Western New York, gratitude, mindfulness, monastic, prayer, tagged Abbey of the Genesee, contemplative, eucharist, Holy Spirit, Spiritual, Trappist on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Three robins
Posted in Genesee Abbey, Spiritual, Trappist, monastic, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplative, Genesee Abbey, Psalm 42, robins, Trappist, trinity on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday as I approached Abbey of the Genesee on River Road three deer sprang from the meadow to my right and and crossed the road heading west. I slowed to nearly a stop and I thought of the passage from Psalm 42.
As the deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, [...]
Agnus Dei
Posted in Christianity, Genesee Abbey, Thomas Merton, Trappist, tagged contemplative, John Eudes, prayer, Thomas Merton, Trappist on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
How often these words are with me and in particular lately. January 7, 1979 was my first visit to Abbey of the Genesee. I wanted to join the community at that point. I [...]
No man will ever see me again
Posted in Thomas Merton, Trappist, monastic, mystic, tagged Abbey of the Genesee, contemplative, Thomas Merton, Trappist on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That is how Thomas Merton describes his ultimate call to solitude. I just got through watching PBS’s Thomas Merton special. I’m glad I found it. I missed much of the program, but what I did see was interesting and informative. I drove to Abbey of the Genesee again today. I completed some of my [...]
Trappist Commercial
Posted in Marian, Trappist, mindfulness, mystic, tagged contemplative, Super Bowl, Trappist on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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A pious monk
Posted in Peace, Thomas Merton, Trappist, monastic, tagged contemplative, Thomas Merton, Trappist on October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This came in today’s mail. I received this in another mailing just last week and I think it’s an appropriate response to all that surrounds us today.
I do not consider myself integrated in the war-making society in which I live, but the problem is that this society does consider me integrated in [...]
A question of relevance
Posted in Thomas Merton, Trappist, monastic, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplative, marginal person, monk, Thomas Merton, Trappist on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Are monks and hippies and poets relevant? No, we are deliberately irrelevant. We live with an ingrained irrelevance which is proper to every human being. The marginal [person] accepts the basic irrelevance of the human condition, an irrelevance which is manifested above all by the fact of death. The [...]
Under His wings
Posted in Peace, Trappist, mystic, tagged compline, Genesee Abbey, Psalm 91, Trappist on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
About 5:15 pm I decided I’d drive the 52 miles north from my home to Abbey of the Genesee for Compline and a chance for some goodies from the bake shop. I climbed in the car and sped along the roadways until I arrived about ten minutes early for the final prayer of the Monk’s [...]
Holy Peace
Posted in Genesee Abbey, Mt. Irenaeus, Spiritual, Thomas Merton, Trappist, Zen, gratitude, mindfulness, monastic, mystic, prayer, tagged Franciscan, contemplative, Trappist, spiritual direction, contemplation, Abbey of the Genesee, Mt. Irenaeus on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I took this picture as I was walking up the trail to Holy Peace Chapel at Mt. Irenaeus this morning. It was a beautiful morning and one of the nicest of the summer. Today’s readings were very meaningful for me. Psalm 63 was read after the first reading and it really embodied how I’ve been [...]
