Mary and the Monastic Life

The whole monastic life is lived in and with Mary the Virgin Mother who has given us the Word Incarnate.  She is the model and the summary of all monastic spirituality, and the fathers could call her the “rule of monks” – Maria regula monachorum….In such a life, we are completely conformed to the Virgin [...]

Mary’s Detachment

An excerpt from “The Other-Centeredness of Mary”, by Dom John Main, O.S.B.: At the core of Mary’s detachment, even from what is dearest and most precious, is the continual projection of her consciousness away from herself.  This is indeed the condition of her pilgrimage.  On every occasion where Jesus is shown addressing her in the [...]