The ancient Christian practice of welcoming the stranger runs deep in the story of the church, drawing its shape from the deserts of fourth-century Egypt and…
There's a particular hush that descends when a person steps across the threshold of a place set apart for prayer. Mother of the Redeemer Monastery, tucked into…
In the Christian liturgy, few words are as familiar as Amen. We hear it at the end of prayers, speak it before receiving Holy Communion, and encounter it…
Daily prayer in a Benedictine community does not run on a clock that anyone built. It runs on the turning of the year. The monks of Mother of the Redeemer…
Handcrafted altar linens carry more than thread and weave. In a Benedictine monastery like Mother of the Redeemer, the corporal, purificator, and chalice veil…
In the Benedictine tradition, few virtues are spoken of more quietly and lived more visibly than patience. At the heart of a monastery, every hour of the day…
Prayer rarely begins in a perfectly quiet mind. A message arrives, a task comes to mind, or yesterday’s concern replays itself as soon as silence begins. For…
Music has always been woven into Christian prayer. From the first monastic communities in the Egyptian desert to the great abbeys of medieval Europe, the…
For more than fifteen centuries, Benedictine monks have shaped Western Christianity through prayer, hospitality, and a deep reverence for the saints who went…
Pentecost is often called the birthday of the Church, the moment when the promised Spirit descended upon the apostles and sent them forth to proclaim the…