Benedict, Mary, Meditation, and the Marginal (Part 2)

While Mary’s primary response was to seek the marginalised, Benedict’s was to receive them. Of course, after the seeking there was care and support, so too, after the receiving. In both this seeking and receiving, the marginalised of Benedict’s and Mary’s time were supported.

Benedict, Mary, Meditation, and the Marginal (Part 1)

In the life of a Christian meditator, how might these two mission statements, that of Jesus and of the WCCM, combine? How might an oblate of the WCCM engage this mission statement of Jesus, making it somehow our own?

Book Review. ‘Hold the Rope, Carry Your Cross: Christianity and The Ten Bull Pictures of Zen’, by Andrew McAlister and Carlos Siqueira.

This review was published in the WCCM oblate newletter Via Vitae (Way of Life) in 2022. More information about the

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The Mantra As A Salve

Maybe we begin our daily meditation feeling somehow anxious. Perhaps there is a woundedness, or a recent reactivity, sitting in

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Gentleness: The Misunderstood Fruit of the Spirit

This is part one of notes that were prepared for an online Younger Christian Meditators retreat day contucted on June 20, 2020.