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A Lay Cistercian Looks at Spiritual Reality
Month: January 2025
BEING CATHOLIC FOR THOSE WHO THINK THAT THEY CAN’T BE CATHOLIC
I write this blog from the perspective of someone 84.5 years old who has been accepted by the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit (Trappist) as a Professed Lay Cistercian. This is not just who I am but where I find myself… Continue Reading “BEING CATHOLIC FOR THOSE WHO THINK THAT THEY CAN’T BE CATHOLIC”
A LAY CISTERCIAN SHARES HIS STRUGGLES WITH THOSE WHO ARE PUSSILANIMOUS
Life is a process, so it stands to reason that, my Lay Cistercian Way is also subject to those same tendencies to live life just a tad before what is happening now. This trend takes much of its direction from the milieu in which… Continue Reading “A LAY CISTERCIAN SHARES HIS STRUGGLES WITH THOSE WHO ARE PUSSILANIMOUS”
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