[NYer]

Dwight Longenecker is an American who went to England over twenty years ago, and never found his way home. He went there after escaping from Bob Jones University with a degree in Speech and English. In England he pretended to be an Inkling while studying theology at Oxford University. He was eventually ordained as an Anglican priest and served as a curate, a school chaplain in Cambridge and a country parson. In 1995 Dwight and his family were received into the Catholic Church and he now writes regularly for over twenty-five magazines, papers and journals in Britain, Ireland and the USA.

[GirlShortstop]

For both St. Benedict and St. Thérèse, "God is not elsewhere." They believe God is present in the joys and sorrows of our everyday lives, and the spiritual quest is the quest to see God's mighty hand in all his works -- especially in the little things of life.

bumping a good article.

Is it just me, or did anyone else think of a cold beer as the good man's name was mentioned???   Good thing Friday's coming!    :-)

Pax et bonum!

[pascendi]

"We are about to found therefore a school for the Lord's service; in the organization of which we trust that we shall ordain nothing severe and nothing burdensome. But even if, the demands of justice dictating it, something a little irksome shall be the result, for the purpose of amending vices or preserving charity; - thou shalt not therefore, struck by fear, flee the way of salvation, which can not be entered upon except through a narrow entrance. But as one's way of life and one's faith progresses, the heart becomes broadened, and, with the unutterable sweetness of love, the way of the mandates of the Lord is traversed. Thus, never departing from His guidance, continuing in the monastery in his teaching until death, through patience we are made partakers in Christ's passion, in order that we may merit to be companions in His kingdom."

Excerpts from the Rule of St. Benedict