On Saturday, 13 February 2021, seven Knights of the Southern Cross joined us for the day to experience the monastic rhythm of prayer,...

So, what then of sacraments? What are these “mysteries”? Look at your hand. No, don’t keep reading. Do it! Look at your hand. Please....

Antisemitism is on the rise again. And it’s from both ends of the ideological spectrum: from both the so-called “right” and “left”, from...

“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...

In my work with Catholic schools I am often asked that question. And I am tempted to reply: "Because we are boring. And when liturgy is...

Many people reject any kind of overtly religious faith because of what they have come to believe is meant by “God”, “faith” and...

We often think of "Christian Unity" in collective, communal, and even institutional terms. Could that be part of the reason why we're not...

Christian unity is a gift. Christian disunity is a sin, a wound. It threatens the very integrity of the Body of Christ. It cripples us in...

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...

When a group is divided, what's the easiest, quickest and most psychologically satisfying way to reunite it? When we feel divided within...

The church does not exist for itself. The church exists for the sake of the world, to bring the world to that "life to the full" that...

We all need them. Regularly. A life-changing insight into the truth; a revelation; a sudden, unexpected, unforced, unpremeditated,...

Jesus taught in parables and signs—both of which were meant to make us re-think our prejudices and preconceptions; both of which were...

God, as it were, “took a risk”—all lovers do. God became one of us; and so risked rejection, indifference, incomprehension, even...

On the 7 December we joined the brothers of Our Lady of Cana Priory in Colebrook (Tasmania) for First Vespers of the Immaculate...