Prayer is one of the defining features of monastic life—perhaps the most important one from a practical point of view. It is the thing...

Whether our thoughts swarm about like hungry sharks or swirl like shoals of skittish sardines or languidly weave in and out like trout...

“Sit in your cell as in Paradise,” Romuald tells us, and adds: “put the whole world behind you, and let it go.” In the previous...

I’d like to begin a series of reflections on the Brief Rule of Saint Romuald, the spiritual charter of our community. Saint Romuald was...