Elegy to Silence
We, who live beyond cloister walls, can learn from Carthusians – a 22-minute documentary.
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Learning from Hermits in a Covid19 World
We, who live outside monastery walls, can learn a lot from those who live within them – especially at this time with so many of us staying in our homes as a world-wide attempt to break the chain of Covid-19 and save lives.
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Carthusians Covid19 and Communion
Carthusians maintain an old tradition that we might use in these days – of meditating on parts of the Eucharistic Liturgy outside of the actual celebration of the Holy Eucharist.
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Praying Rather Than Proselytising
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] In the recent Tablet cover story, A struggle with the silence of the monastery, Sam Hickford, a self-confessed “nature-loving hippie” described his conversion to Christianity. He visited Bakonybél Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Hungary, as a volunteer on a farming project. This introduction to the monastic life –
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Anthelm of Belley
26 June is the Feast of Anthelm of Belley. He was born near Chambéry in 1107. He would later receive an ecclesiastical benefice in the area of Belley. When he was thirty years old, he resigned from this position to become a Carthusian monk at Portes. Only two years after joining the order, he was
The Still Point in a Turning World
A friend put the image of the Peterborough crucifix on his facebook page with the words, “Peterborough Cathedral: The Cross stands as the world turns.” Those words translate what is on the bottom of this crucifix by Frank Roper (1974). What intrigued me was that Peterborough was a Benedictine monastery – this is the motto
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Saint Hugh of Lincoln
Anybody who has been following this website for some time knows my interest (read obsession) with Carthusians, and how we might learn from them, and live some of what they focus on – but outside cloister walls. Hugh of Lincoln (1135/40 – 16 November 1200), a Carthusian who went on to live the busy life
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Rosary
October 7 was the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, and October is, traditionally, the month of the Rosary. The 150 recitations of the Hail Mary was, obviously, connected to the monastic praying of the 150 psalms (especially for those without books or who could not read). The recent addition of another 50 Hail