This morning our Br. Mark Soroko entered the novitiate. Originally from New Hampshire, Br. Mark, 47, earned a bachelor of science degree and later an M. Div. He's also studied auto-mechanics, a combination of skills well-suited to a life of reading and manual labor. His quiet, friendly presence continues to be a welcome blessing to our community.
All the citizens of heaven want to promote unity among us; all the citizens of hell want to promote division. Satan wants to divide and conquer. But the closer we get to God, the closer we get to our fellow human beings. The more we love God, the more we love others.
St Gregory in his Dialogues shows us how St Benedict had a gift for prophecy. He could read people’s hearts and even see the present in the light of the future. In writing his Rule, St Benedict repeatedly urged his monks to learn to see, and to be seen. Two particular visions must have marked St Benedict’s consciousness
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St. Charles de Foucauld: From the moment in which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify the person with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love the person and he ceases to be able to become better. We should expect everything of everyone. We must dare to be love in a world that does not know how to love.