On this Holy Tuesday I want to invite you into a holy pause to cradle your heart. The Aria I have chosen from the Matthew Passion offers you an invitation to self-compassion. To be compassionate even with your “bleeding heart.”

Dec 29
Dec 29 The 5th Day of Christmas. Building Heart

Almut Furchert & Chuck Huff

12 Days of Christmas 2020

Today we muse on the difficulties and distractions of the way before us and we invite you to deepen your heart, and to (re)visit or practice some aspect of this shared journey. Do not lose heart, dear one. Take courage.

Dec 29
Dec 29 The Fifth Day of Christmas: Educating the Heart

Chuck Huff

12 Days of Christmas 2018

For one quarter of the day, every Benedictine is supposed to do reading from the monastery library. But here is the crucial insight. The point is not to have the reader go through the book. It is instead for the book to go through the reader. How different would we read the Christmas story, if we do not just go through the story but let the story go through us?