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Light by Max Pixel. CC0. Last Friday, the sisters had a day of prayer and fasting in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Church. We closed the monastery to visitors, maintained strict silence, and performed no [...]

Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, The Adoration of the Magi. National Gallery of Art. Epiphany is one of my favorite feasts and has been since childhood. It’s a feast of movement, of response, a feast that celebrates [...]

Sr. Mary Lucy's Meerkats As we near the end of the Christmas Octave and prepare to begin a new year, it’s natural to imitate Janus and look backwards as well as ahead; we remember, and in remembering, we [...]

At this darker time of the year, the trees are skeletal. What you notice first, now, is not foliage but structure, not ornament but underpinning, not rounded canopy but stark, contorted trunks and wild, scraggy branches, their every effort to [...]

[Unknown.] Initial O: Christ, late 13th century, Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment. Leaf: 58.3 × 40.2 cm (22 15/16 × 15 13/16 in.), Ms. Ludwig VI 6, fol. 79v. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. [...]

"Santorini's Donkey" by Klearchos Kapoutsis is licensed under CC by 2.0 On Thanksgiving, after enjoying a festive meal provided by generous donors, after fellowship with our dear brother friars, and after we’d washed just about every dish, pan, [...]