Secret Harbour - Portus Secretioris

Rejoice, because you have escaped the various dangers and shipwrecks of the stormy world. Rejoice, because you have reached the quiet and safe anchorage of a secret harbour. <> Saint Bruno's letter to his sons the Carthusians

06 September 2010

The Pearl of Great Price

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In the Prologue of the book titled, ‘Saint Bruno the Carthusian’ by André Ravier, S. J., is a description of how it all began for Saint Brun...

04 September 2010

Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time

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The painting depicts Saint Bruno refusing the archbishopric of Reggio of Calabria. These are the brush strokes of the mid-sixteenth to early...

03 September 2010

Preparing a Pathway to Contemplate the Substance of Eternity

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On this feast of Saint Gregory the Great, at Matins the Carthusians listened to a lengthy reading from ‘Moralia in Iob’ written by this day’...

02 September 2010

The Gift of Faith

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What is important above everything else, first and foremost, is faith : faith in the reality of the divine presence in and around us, bringi...

01 September 2010

Immersing Oneself in the Resurrection of the Saviour

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A Carthusian monk describes intimacy with God as ‘a thirst born within us’, a ‘wound’, and ‘a sharing in the solitude of God’. True solitude...

30 August 2010

Our Lord's Special Friends

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Oh, if you had once come into that wine-cellar, out of doubt you would even with a certain thirstiness, more earnestly desire to be there an...

28 August 2010

The Word of God is All in all

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Today on this feast of Saint Augustine, the Carthusians at the hour of Matins listened to this great saint’s words from his ‘Sermo CXX’. Her...

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