#ChoralMarch 11th: “De Angelis”, Moines de Santo Domingo de Silos
Holding the title of having recorded the best-selling Gregorian Chant album of all time, the Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo de Silos have been described as : The ensemble is not…
Tag: monasticism
“Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.” – Henri Nouwen on solitude and compassion
From Nouwen’s The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers Here we reach the point where ministry and spirituality touch each other. It is compassion.…
The many uses of St Columba
From Richard Sharpe’s introduction to his translation of of Adomnan’s Life of St Columba, there are some fascinating passages on how Columba came to be used as a sort of…
“Of Smelly Monks and Annoying Neighbours” – Hannah LeGrand in Comment Magazine
Hannah LeGrand has a review of Kyle David Bennet’s Practices of Love in Comment Magazine which is worth reading. I’ve posted before on the romanticisation of monasticism. Both those who…
“Ample food and sleep” : A thought on retrospective diagnosis, visions and full bellies
From Geoffrey Moorhouse’s fine bookSun Dancing A clinical diagnosis of Aedh’s erotic and other visions would doubtless have concluded that , whatever shaped them in his psyche, they were triggered…
Birthplace of St Columba, Gartan, Donegal
Traditionally, St Columba’s birthplace was near Lough Gartan, Church Hill, Co Donegal. Church Hill is a village near Glenveagh National Park, and is on the fringes of the Derryveagh…
Adam deVille on the romanticisation of monasticism
From a lengthy review of Rod Dreher’s new book “The Benedict Option.” I used to occasionally read Dreher’s blog, and tried his “The Little Way of Ruthie Leming”, but drifted…
Thoughts on Silence From Augustinian Abbey, Fethard, Tipperary
I have blogged here and here and here and here and here about silence. I have, in more pretentious moments, contemplated essaying a philosophy of silence. How much have I actually sat in silence? How much have I actually…
Séamus Sweeney 