When I woke this past Easter morning, I heard songbirds calling each other for the first time this year. Grace, Barefoot viriditas Green is the vision of the leaves of the trees. Green are the lakes, still and pure.
A thought from a beginner at following the Rule of Benedict
I was thinking about things and it struck me that the Rule is less something we do, than a thing that works on us, forming and changing us. It feels as if the Rule’s larger program has much the same effect as our “doing” its
“She spreads her wings…”
The “Ancrene Wisse” (AW), or “Ancrene Riwle”, is a rule written to give direction and encouragement to a trio of sisters who were anchoresses in England in the 1200s. It was a favorite text of J.R.R. Tolkien, and