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Scripture Readings: Book of the Prophet Zechariah 9:9-10; Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans 8:9,11-13; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 11:25-30
How can we possibly know the mind and heart of God? No easy task, but the best way is to listen to our Lord Jesus Christ, whom we hear in the Gospel today thanking his Father in heaven for revealing to the merest disciples th...
Scripture Readings: Second Book of Kings 4:8-11, 14-16; Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans 6:3-4, 8-11; Gospel According to Saint Matthew 10:37-42
The Gospel passage for this Sunday, recorded by Saint Matthew the Evangelist, is the conclusion of what has been called the “Missionary Discourse” of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel. In today’s section, a number of teachings of Jes...
As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Birth of Saint John the Baptist, called the “Forerunner of the Lord,” we also recount the founding of the Monastery of Christ in the Desert on this date in 1964. Today we rejoice in 62 years of existence as a “cenobium” (community), under the Rule of Saint Benedict, Father of Western Monasticism, who lived from 480 to 547 AD.
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With daytime temperatures now in the mid-80s (and around 50 at night), lots of flowers are blooming in our cloister garden, especially roses. Today’s photo is of an arrangement at the icon of Our Lady in our church.
Summer has officially begun, which also means the monsoon or rainy season is upon us, and we await in hope for an abundance of rainfall in the coming weeks...
Less than three feet tall, bordering on being a bonsai, our jade tree remains indoors year round, easy to care for, requiring just an occasional watering, and not too often or it languishes.
The tree is located near large windows, next to our reading room, with sunlight providing nourishment for its good health.
As the Old Testament psalmist wrote some three mil...