Br. Robert takes care to keep kindled his fire of incense as the lazy smoke beatifies sunlight streaming through stained glass windows.

The world is the gift of God. We must know how to perceive the giver through the gift. More precisely, since the time of the incarnation, the Passion and Easter, we can see the earth as an immense memorial, the tomb/womb in which Christ was buried and to which he gave resurrected power through the power of his own resurrection ... The Word both hides and reveals himself in visible forms as much as in the words of Scripture.

- Olivier Clement

Brother Vincent Rogers ... The community's newly ordained deacon.

Eucharistic Adoration on the Feast of Corpus Christi

Our two juniors, Brothers Simeon and Jonah returned home last week from the annual Junior Seminar for the Order's simply professed monks and nuns of the North American region. This year's Seminar was held at St. Benedict's monastery in breathtaking Snowmass, Colorado. The community of Snowmass welcomed the twenty-five juniors wholeheartedly, giving generous witness to monastic hospitality at it's best. The themes of the presentations were: 1) The relationship between Lectio Divina and the Liturgy 2) The monk as "disciple", and 3) The Science of Love. Precious opportunities abounded for bonds to be made and friendships to be established between the juniors. A full schedule of classes, a wide range of extra-curricular activities (hiking, volleyball, mountain biking) and fabulous meals enjoyed together along with rich conversation, provided ample occasions for getting to know one another. The sharing of each person's unique vocational story, formation experiences, insights and struggles, were, for many, the heart and soul of the 2009 Seminar.

The Solemn Profession of Sr. Maria Kim ocso - April 15, 2009

You have seduced me, O Lord, and I let myself be seduced.

Jer. 20:7

"Light's glittering morn bedecks the sky,

Heaven thunders forth its victor cry:

The glad earth shouts its triumph high,

And groaning hell makes wild reply.

While he the King of glorious might

Treads down death's strength in death's despite,

And trampling hell by victor's right,

Brings forth his sleeping saints to light.

Hell's pains are loosed, and tears are fled;

Captivity is captive led;

The angel crowned with light, has said,

'The Lord is risen from the dead.' "

-Latin hymn

Fifth century