diving below the surface
Oct 23, 2006
The Blog Ahead
First of all, every time you begin a good work, you must pray to him most earnestly to bring it to perfection.
~ The Rule of Saint Benedict, Prologue

And so I begin, with a prayer from my Trappist confrere Thomas Merton:
My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think that I am following
your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this, you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Amen.
And that's the truth of this site. It's been a long time in coming and, while I've been brainstorming about it off and on for the last several months .... the truth of the matter is, I have no idea myself where it will go. But you're more than welcome to join me on the journey.
Written by Benedictine Sister at 9:36 PM
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Oct 14, 2006
Demographic Digging, Round 2
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being "Church, smurch, and 10 being "Aww, man, the homily's done already?!?" ... how would you rank your (for lack of a better word) religiousness?
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Written by Benedictine Sister at 11:20 PM
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Demographic Digging
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being "Adam and Eve -- like Christmas Eve?" and 10 being "I can explain the Trinity even better than Aquinas" ... how would you rank your religious expertise/knowledge?
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Written by Benedictine Sister at 11:14 PM
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Content Curiousity
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Written by Benedictine Sister at 11:04 PM
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