Sermons on Vocation

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…

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.

“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…