Today in the Divine Liturgy, I prayed almost constantly for the people of Norcia, especially the monks. Like countless people around the world today who have been touched by the ministry and witness ...

One of the key aspects of Benedictine spirituality is “stability.” The Mennonite scholar Gerald Schlabach has written about what this means. Excerpt: Benedict’s rule requires a “vow of stability” — ...

Photo credit to Michael Scanlan H '97. Photos were taken observing prevailing Covid-19 protocols. Friday convocations at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, N.J., often resemble an old-school ...

Benedict’s monks and nuns take vows of obedience, stability and conversion of life. Obedience helps to break a person’s selfish will and makes us open to respond with alacrity to the will of God.

During the six weeks of Lent I have been blogging about the six aspects of the Benedictine life. First we considered the three vows of obedience, stability and conversion of life. Now, for the second ...

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Stability is "a commitment to trust God not in an ideal world, but in the battered and bruised world we know." Journey is a multipurpose term and almost a cliché in Catholic ...