Monk’s best friend
byWe are blessed with beautiful and functional architecture here at St. Gregory’s Abbey, and we are grateful to our supporters around the world who…
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Pray and work
byI’m debating whether I can summon the energy to get out of bed between snippets of NPR on the clock radio. Through my bedroom…
Somewhere on Monticello Road: Listening to Pamela York’s “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me”
byShortly after the Civil War, Dr. Joshua Ensor lost his gold-framed spectacles on Monticello Road. At the time, he was superintendent of the South…
Walking after midnight
byThis essay was previously published in the Summer 2001 Abbey Letter, no. 206 (Saint Gregory’s Abbey, Three Rivers, Michigan). Shortly after I joined the…
Melancholy Christmas
byWe moved to Three Rivers, Michigan, 13 years ago during a snowy winter to live in a cottage on Pleasant Lake. The cold arrived…