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Bealtaine | St.Chads_Well
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Musings on Monastic Life while Living in the World. May 2, 2010 in Uncategorized. Here is an ancient Celtic poem that celebrates that faith. I walk in a meadow during Bealtaine. Wild flowers stroke my legs,. Red and yellow petals caress me,. The dew on the grass washes me. Is each tiny flower an angel? Is each petal an angelic finger? Are the angels cleansing me of sin? Are the angels my lovers and friends? Here and now God is present;. Here and now heaven is on earth;. Here and now eternity is present;.
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A Maundy Thursday Reflection | St.Chads_Well
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Musings on Monastic Life while Living in the World. A Maundy Thursday Reflection. April 22, 2011 in Uncategorized. In order that the memory of this great gift might ever fresh among us, he left his Body as our food, his Blood as our drink, to be consumed under the outward appearances of bread and wine. What a priceless and marvelous banquet! 8211;St. Thomas Aquinas. Companions of St. Luke – OSB. Comments feed for this article. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Nomah | St.Chads_Well
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Musings on Monastic Life while Living in the World. April 24, 2010 in Uncategorized. During this season of celebration of Christ’s resurrection and the ultimate reconciliation this represents, I’d like to share a story that occurred early last month that demonstrates that same spirit of reconciliation and love. But that’s only part of the story. When I told my friends at work about what happened, their reaction was Why’d they do that? Companions of St. Luke – OSB. Comments feed for this article. Build a ...
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A Pilgrimage | St.Chads_Well
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Musings on Monastic Life while Living in the World. September 22, 2010 in Uncategorized. My youngest brother is an Episcopal Priest and a rector of a parish in a medium sized industrial city in Northeast Pennsylvania. Like many members of our family, he has a lot to say, so he has a blog. Father of all, who keeps my journey and marks the horizon of my destiny, love me through my journey tomorrow. Son of God, show me not the whole road at once, but give me the distance to be gained in single step. Travel ...
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Saint Benedict of Nursia | St.Chads_Well
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Musings on Monastic Life while Living in the World. Saint Benedict of Nursia. July 11, 2012 in Uncategorized. For the CSL Convocation May 2012. By Sr Bernadette Barrett , OSB. Familiar words from the 72nd Chapter of the Rule: ‘Let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ.’ Like many of Christ’s words in the Gospels, both comfortable and uncomfortable, they slide off the tongue with ease, and we all too often allow their familiar cadences to lull our minds away from the depth of their challenge. We are, as ...
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The Dream of the Rood –A Holy Week Reading | St.Chads_Well
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Musings on Monastic Life while Living in the World. The Dream of the Rood A Holy Week Reading. March 29, 2010 in Uncategorized. This 7th Century Cross has pictgrams of the Dream of the Rood carved on it. The choicest of visions I wish to tell,which came as a dream in middle-night,after voice-bearers lay at rest. It seemed that I saw a most wondrous tree born aloft, wound round by light,5. Brightest of beams. All was that beacon. Sprinkled with gold. Gems stood. But holy souls beheld it there,. Worked me ...
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About | St.Chads_Well
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Musings on Monastic Life while Living in the World. I am Br. Chad-Anselm, OSB and a life professed member of the Companions of St. Luke, a Benedictine community in the Episcopal Church. My objective is to share thoughts on the challenges and joys of living into Benedict’s Rule and the Christian experience of the ancient British and Irish and relate this to our day-to-day living in the world. So why St. Chad’s Well? Companions of St. Luke – OSB. Comments feed for this article. March 30, 2010 at 1:35 am.
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Lectio Divina at Camp | St.Chads_Well
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Musings on Monastic Life while Living in the World. Lectio Divina at Camp. September 29, 2010 in Uncategorized. I begin to really look at the trees and sky across the bay. There is about 50% color now. The oranges and yellows of the birch and maple trees are punctuated by the fire red leaves of the sugar maples. The Oaks, which haven’t changed color yet and the pines offer a green back-drop that provides the contrast that heightens the colors of the other trees. Whizzz, plop. Make me an island, set apart,.
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A Holy Saturday Reflection | St.Chads_Well
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Musings on Monastic Life while Living in the World. A Holy Saturday Reflection. April 23, 2011 in Uncategorized. Today there is a great silence over the earth, for the King sleeps. The Earth has trembled and fallen still for the Lord sleeps in his fleshly nature; in the nether world his is arousing those who have slept for ages. God is dead in the flesh, and has shaken Sheol to its foundations. You who sleep, rise up! I bid you: Awake, sleeper! An ancient homily for Holy Saturday. Enter your comment here.
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