The Center for Contemplative Practice
A Lay Cistercian Looks at Spiritual Reality

January 2019

PRACTICES THAT COME FROM CISTERCIAN MONASTIC PIETY

I asked the question this morning, “What am I doing now that I was not doing five years ago, the caveat being Lay Cistercian practices that come from my observance of monastic charisms at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery (Trappist), Conyers, Georgia? CUSTOS OCULI –– I now practice custos oculi, the custody of […]

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