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Q: Take us back to the beginning: when did you first start to have a sense of a monastic vocation, and what was it that was drawing you? I first started going to an Episcopal church in college. I was very eager to learn more and go deeper, so I met with the priest there…

Swimming in Meaning, Rooted in God: A conversation about vocation with Br. Keith Nelson Q: Take us back to the beginning. When did your monastic vocation begin? I had no formal religious upbringing before the age of nine, when my family moved from a little suburb in southern New Jersey to a suburb of Birmingham,…

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Homily preached by Brother James Koester SSJE Monastery of Saint Mary and Saint John Tuesday, 27 November 2012 Saints of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist   You may have heard me say in the past that the Christian faith, and specifically the liturgical cycle of feasts and fasts is one of the few…

Br. James offers this…   When I as in grade 10 we read Alan Paton’s powerful novel Cry, The Beloved Country. If you are not familiar with it, it’s about a black South African priest whose son is jailed for murdering a white person in apartheid South Africa. Shortly after reading Cry I discovered Naught…

Br. Geoffrey takles about waiting.
How do you wait?

Brilliant thinking from Br Jonathan,