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Adorn Your Chamber
12/11/2015 10:48
We will work on Aelred´s sermon 32 until the end of January.
Fourth Chapter
12/09/2015 15:01
We will keep on working on Aelerd's Sermon 32 till the end of January.
Third Chapter Ready!
05/23/2015 11:28
This time our mentor is Bernard, and we are going to read and meditate on his Sermon 28 on the Song of Songs.
Yes, I know that monks and nuns usually have mixed feelings –love, hate or something in between- about Bernard, and these Sermons in particular, but I believe that together we can...
Touched By Faith
05/23/2015 11:27
This time our mentor is Bernard, and we are going to read and meditate on his Sermon 28 on the Song of Songs.
We will be working on this chapter till mid-August.
From Myself Into You
02/04/2015 14:17
We will work on this chapter, From Myself into You, for three months, and I will post the responses on this web https://ouresponses.webnode.com/ as I receive them from you. All the responses you sent for the past chapter, Waiting, were beautiful. Thank you so much!
From Myself into You
02/04/2015 14:01
We are ready to begin a new chapter of Cistercian Mentors. The name of this chapter is From Myself into You, which are Gertrud´s words to Jesus in her Spiritual Exercises. Our proposal for the next chapter of Cistercian Mentors is to read and meditate together on pages 100 to 108 and 132 to...
To Prove My Love
01/29/2015 17:19
“You will be waiting for me many days, but you are not to take any other husband or lover.” Hos. 3: 3
Blessed Guerric quotes the prophet Hosea to express that the life of a monk is one of suspense. He also describes this life of suspense as a “suspended death” on the cross. ...
You Will Not Disappoint Me
01/13/2015 10:21
“We are waiting for the Savior.” Such waiting is truly a joy to the righteous who are waiting for the hope of blessedness, the glorious coming of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. “What am I waiting for,” a righteous man may ask, “but the Lord?” “I know,” he says,...
Impression
01/09/2015 14:58
Waiting. Expecting.
Texture of words. Feel the sharp edges of the consonants in expecting, the long extension of the vowel in waiting. Feel with the soft tissue of the mouth. Taste.
Words as eggs, filled with remembered...
He Will Come
01/06/2015 16:42
Times of waiting are an intrinsic part of life. In all of life’s events – both the great and the seemingly insignificant -- some things happen spontaneously and at other times, we must wait. When we wait, we do so because we are not in a position to immediately...
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