A friend of mine who's been battling cancer on and off has been diagnosed with (chemotherapy induced) Leukemia. Seems you go often enough and your immune system gets blown out. I've got some yarn and I'll be making her a prayer shawl from a free download on a vintage crochet site. Some of the shawls I've seen on the prayer shawl site are... well ( Read more... )

St Ann's has the most bodacious choir ( Read more... )

Once again I'm looking inward to stretch on this one.

The clothing distributed to the members should vary according to local conditions and climate, because more is needed in cold regions and less in warmer. This is left to the discretion of the prioress or abbot. We believe that for each monastic a cowl and tunic will suffice in temperate ( Read more... )

I was ready to do the O Antiphons in the chapel as per Father's request and my petitioning of the liturgy committee. When disheveled_one presented this week's church bulletin on Monday with the listing of the activities for Advent I nearly fell through the floor. Yes, there it was in black and... beige--Vespers in the church and NOT the chapel. I rubbed my ( Read more... )

Today's reading from The Rule:

In no circumstance are monastics allowed, unless the prioress or abbot says they may, to exchange letters, blessed tokens or small gifts of any kind, with their parents or anyone else, or with another monastic. They must not presume to accept gifts sent them even by their parents without previously telling the ( Read more... )

I was reading an Oblate manual and ran across this today quoting the Manual for Benedictine Oblates:

In our day, no less, does the growth of infidelity threaten the world with ruin.
The bonds of Christian union are loosening everywhere; in the family as well as in
public life their place is being largely taken by a code of unrestraint and license.

Went up to meet queenofhalves(Ph.d student) and kateri_thinks (prime directive - feminist catholic kicking ass with the Jesuits)at qos's (M.div grad) place on Saturday. Four women together three of which had never met one another and it all came together like a perfectly woven shawl. Now it seems that I check their LJ info and they are friends with or know people that I also ( Read more... )

Tonight was the ultimate litmus test. Could I stand before the Liturgy Committee and not crack like a nut. I took one hour out of my day to plan a 10-15 minute presentation about the Liturgy of the Hours. I thought, You don't need to explain this Liturgy to the LITURGY committee, so tossed that out until I spoke to nervous nilly Thom who planted ( Read more... )