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The Rule of St. Benedict

St. Benedict: A Guide to Sanctity

Posted on July 9, 2022September 6, 2022 by Aidan McDermott

July 11 Each Sunday the Church proclaims belief in "the Communion of Saints" as it says the Creed. We say it so quickly and by rote memory, it perhaps does not dawn on us how important this tenet of our faith is. However, its importance is mo...
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Memorial of St. Gertrude the Great

Posted on November 15, 2021November 13, 2022 by Aidan McDermott

November 16 Today the Church celebrates one of the most loved ecclesial mystic heroes of the Middle Ages; Saint Gertrude of Helfta or better-known as Saint Gertrude the Great. Her feast day was made part of the universal Calendar of the Roman...
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Thomas Merton on the Unity of All Things in the Love of Christ

Posted on December 1, 2020November 4, 2021 by Aidan McDermott

A man cannot enter into the deepest center of himself and pass through that center into God, unless he is able to pass entirely out of himself and empty himself and give himself to other people in purity of a selfless love (New Seeds of Contempl...
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