Benedictine Brother David Steindl-Rast has written many books on the spiritual life and lectured extensively throughout the world. His book, Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer, is especially appropriate during this […]
Margaret (Gregory) Michaud, OSB Saint Benedict’s Monastery St. Joseph, Minn. August 6, 1935 – November 8, 2025 The Eucharist of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, […]
Isn’t it funny sometimes how God can take us completely by surprise, in both delightful and frightening ways? Sometimes we get an unexpected blessing when we need a lift. At […]
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do / With your one wild and precious life?” asks poet Mary Oliver. We are in the winding-down season of the year. […]
How one sees God matters. Think back to your childhood. Was God an old man with a long, white beard? Was he jovial and good-natured or angry and displeased? Did […]
Perhaps we were first taught the concept of Grace and its meaning when we were children, possibly through the Baltimore Catechism or some religion class instruction. But the concept still […]
After 70 years, I discovered I had lived in the Communion of Saints within a triangle of small towns in Minnesota. New Trier, Vermillion and Hastings hold some significant genealogy […]
People generally enjoy and participate readily in celebrations, lifting one out of the humdrum of every day life. When November rolls in each year, we see two major celebrations on […]
Dragging my luggage through the especially long airport TSA line on my cross-country trip last week, I quietly observed an array of humanity, all quite patiently and mostly politely jostling […]
In most Spanish-speaking churches, one will find a statue of a monk in a Dominican habit with a broom! On November 3, we celebrated St. Martin de Porres (of Peru). […]
