When Judith Valente, a Benedictine oblate, leads contemplative retreats both online and in monasteries around the country, she has been noticing that laypeople — whether Catholic or ...
John Cassian’s Conferences of the Desert Fathers, consisting of interviews with twenty-four Egyptian monastics, exerted a strong influence on St Benedict of Nursia (d. 543/7), who is regarded as the ...
The monastic alternative, at least in the West, has become so deeply unfashionable that most people no longer consider the possibility, but there is, at least to me, something deeply appealing about ...
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