Rev Bill

Monastic Mumblings had a wonderful post last week with a quote from Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and author, about love. In his book Disputed Questions Merton wrote:
What we are asked to do is to love; and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbor worthy if anything can.
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This week’s Monday’s Monk is not  focusing on a quote from an ancient monastic — but the thoughts of the monk in training over at of Monastic Mumblings. 
Yesterday was Christ The King Sunday – the last Sunday in the Liturgical Year (next Sunday begins the Season of Advent, and a new litrugical year) and the Sunday [...]

This week’s Monday’s Monk is another link to a post at Monastic Mumblings.   
Have you ever agreed with what someone was saying — but they were saying it in a manner that turned people off — even you and others who agreed with them?
The Monk In Training at Monastic Mumblings notes:
I hear people all the [...]

This week’s Monday’s Monk is not the wisdom of an ancient monastic — but the wisdom presented in a beautiful post at Monastic Mumblings entitled Seeing Something Old In A New Way.  This is a beautiful post — a beautiful image of a priest who made the Sacrament of Communion become "real" for the those [...]

Today’s Monday’s Monk is somewhat different from others — it is not words of wisdom from an "sage of old" — but a prayer I found at Monasitc Mumblings I want to share with you.   In light of the news from last week that over 2,000 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq, I feel this [...]