We invite all who wish to join us for Easter ceremonies to come to Holy Hill for Good Friday and Easter Vigil.

The schedule is as follows:

Good Friday: 3pm, meet in Pachomius Chapel.

Easter Vigil: 5am Sunday morning, meet in library courtyard.

Johannes Tauler was a pupil of Meister Eckhart. Both died in the 1300's in Germany; both were Dominican priests. Eckhart died while being tried for heresy; Tauler escaped being so branded, and he remains a sound and practical spiritual teacher for denizens of the 21st century. This volume of The Classics of Western Spirituality has 23 of the Rhineland mystic's eighty →

Both the story and the author reside in Maine, my home state.  Though the novel delves deeply into the French culture and I’m accustomed to contrasting my own Protestant roots to this tiny but robust Catholic subculture, I’m forced to take a longer and more loving look:  we humans are so much more alike than different, though we might honestly →

Spring comes early in Ireland, the 1st of February. With record-breaking cold this past December, most of us will be some combination of incredulous and hopeful. Reality does not correspond to our wishes or our calendars. But that cuts both ways. Nature does not proceed on schedule, nor is Spirit synchronous with liturgical seasons. Nor is God bound by our →

The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart by Peter J. Gomes So many of us want to be individuated and make responsible decisions, to become uniquely ourselves, yet to belong to others. We crave community. In our search to realise these desires, what value should we give to the Bible? Peter J. Gomes is a Harvard professor, and an →

Advent is about hope. As the year turns to a close, there can be a haunting bitter-sweet feel to this month - hoping for loved ones to return, for health to return, balancing limited family budgets with unlimited expectations of children. For some, the aspects that would make a happy Christmas are missing. Reality is always less than it might be. →

If you have not read The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander, it’s an excellent choice for Advent. It is a meditation on Mary’s abandonment to the will of God that was a pivotal influence in my life. The most recent book that has influenced me is Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder. It is the story of Deogracias, a →