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How Did I End Up Here? – Br. Jim Woodrum
How is Jesus calling you into something bigger than anything you could have imagined?
Read MoreThe Best Is Yet to Come – Br. James Koester
Profession of Life Vows by Brother Luke Ditewig, SSJE Now I can’t claim to be the list king in this community. There is another brother, who will remain nameless, who is the king of lists, charts and calendars in this community. But what I can claim to be is the brother obituariest (the brother’s call…
Read MoreWounded with Divine Love – Br. Geoffrey Tristram
In the Oxford Movement, the Spirit was drawing individuals to know and love God in a new and intimate way. Br. Geoffrey Tristram remembers the leaders of the movement, especially Edward Bouverie Pusey, who had a hand in the creation of SSJE.
Read MoreFor God Alone – Br. David Vryhof
“In April, 1536, at the end of the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Henry VIII, there were, scattered throughout England and Wales, more than eight hundredreligious houses, monasteries, nunneries and friaries, and in them there lived close on ten thousand monks, canons, nuns, and friars. Four years later, in April 1540, there were…
Read MoreBrother Paul Wessinger
In keeping with monastic tradition, our community reads aloud each departed Brother’s obituary on the anniversary of his death, during Compline. In the words of our Rule, “In Christ we are still one with our departed brothers and we express this communion through regular prayer for them and by recalling their lives on the anniversaries…
Read MoreCharles Chapman Grafton
In keeping with monastic tradition, our community reads aloud each departed Brother’s obituary on the anniversary of his death, during Compline. In the words of our Rule, “In Christ we are still one with our departed brothers and we express this communion through regular prayer for them and by recalling their lives on the anniversaries…
Read MoreFather Richard Meux Benson
In keeping with monastic tradition, our community reads aloud each departed Brother’s obituary on the anniversary of his death, during Compline. In the words of our Rule, “In Christ we are still one with our departed brothers and we express this communion through regular prayer for them and by recalling their lives on the anniversaries…
Read MoreFather Simeon Wilberforce O’Neill
In keeping with monastic tradition, our community reads aloud each departed Brother’s obituary on the anniversary of his death, during Compline. In the words of our Rule, “In Christ we are still one with our departed brothers and we express this communion through regular prayer for them and by recalling their lives on the anniversaries…
Read MoreLife in Community: Challenges and Rewards – Br. David Allen
Early in my time in the SSJE one of the older members of the community was interviewed by a student journalist. He was asked what life in community had been like for him the fifty years he had been professed. He answered in a quavering voice that it had been a struggle the whole way.…
Read MoreA Lifetime of Change: A Conversation about Vocation with Br. Luke Ditewig
Q: When did you first begin to have a sense of a monastic vocation? I went to seminary right after college because an internship made me think I wanted to be a hospital chaplain. After my first year I got a real taste of chaplaincy in Clinical Pastoral Education and found I did not want…
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