I caught a 5 AM ride out to the abbey with my mom. "I feel like I'm taking my unwilling kid to the summer camp," she said as we left Portland
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Re: Don't tell anyonetaymJune 22 2006, 03:13:31 UTC
Isn't he the bizzle? I like him because he's smart, he keeps writing, and hes gone such a crazy route from being the Grand Apprentice of Bill Buckley at National Review to Flaming Catholic Liberal-in-Residence at NY Review of Books. Bare Ruined Choirs is really a blast, because not only is he privy to lots of stuff, you get the feeling he's still trapped in the ideological middle.
Secret's safe. I won't go telling the guy who once spat when I named Wills among my favorite Catholic authors.
Are you still with the Cistercians? I gather you left briefly just to participate in your graduation ceremony? I'm wondering if you are there in discernment, having what they call 'a monastic experience' as perhaps a potential candidate? My memory fades but I remember something about Cistercians following the Benedictine rule?
Cistercians are totally Benedictine! They (we) come from the Abbey of Citeux in 11th century southern France, as a Benedictine reform movement.
I'm staying for a month, not as a postulant or novice, but as a guest of the community. I had some things to sort out on returning from Europe, and since the guys here are old friends, they've offered me a place to stay. I started coming to this abbey well before I was a Catholic or even had a parish church of my own. Guadalupe is my second, or third (after Siena!) home.
It's beautiful, and I'm really thankful, and I keep thinking about moving to the South, if only to make retreats at Holy Spirit in Conyers, GA, and Mepkin, SC. Trappists are the real thing.
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Secret's safe. I won't go telling the guy who once spat when I named Wills among my favorite Catholic authors.
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briefly just to participate in your graduation ceremony?
I'm wondering if you are there in discernment, having
what they call 'a monastic experience' as perhaps a
potential candidate? My memory fades but I remember
something about Cistercians following the Benedictine
rule?
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I'm staying for a month, not as a postulant or novice, but as a guest of the community. I had some things to sort out on returning from Europe, and since the guys here are old friends, they've offered me a place to stay. I started coming to this abbey well before I was a Catholic or even had a parish church of my own. Guadalupe is my second, or third (after Siena!) home.
It's beautiful, and I'm really thankful, and I keep thinking about moving to the South, if only to make retreats at Holy Spirit in Conyers, GA, and Mepkin, SC. Trappists are the real thing.
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