The Way

The Rule of St. Benedict both guides and becomes a "School of the Lord's Service" in that it provides a trellis of sorts, a way to train and practice our spiritual lives, while developing our minds and life in the way of Christ. This blog site, a canvas of thought, hopes to bring others together who share in and are guided by Benedictine and Cistercian charisms as a "way of life."

This way is seen throughout the Gospels and lived out by way of our Jesus - The Christ. The natural rhythms which monastic lives produce in the monastery, can be shared in our daily lives in the world. We need not go far to see what this looks like. All of you who share in the practice of the Rule of St. Benedict are associated in some form with a Monastery and monastic community. Make no mistake, this is what it looks like - a life faced towards our Lord, our God.

Our prayer is that through our obedience, stability, and on-going conversion of life by way of true humility, that we in some tangible form are able to share with others in what this looks like. Spiritual formation and development can only come by way of commitment, that is to a working of the soil, cultivating our soul, with the natural rhythms of prayer, study, work and worship.

We hope that through our practices, that we enter into the mystical body of Christ; as Aquinas so eloquently shared with us: "The moment when the passionate divine thirst for God meets the equally passionate divine thirst for us" - Telos.