Monos blog

  • Prayer and Life Living the Hours invokes a life lived in terms of ‘hours’. The ‘hours’ are the set times in the monastic day that mark moments of prayer—what is known as the ‘daily office’. For a Christian in everyday…

  • Personal Encounter I confess that I am not an avid reader of poetry. High school English was enough to put me off. But every now and then I come across a poem that breaks through my reluctance and speaks to…

  • By Dr Ant Grimley I recently watched the food series by Stanley Tucci called: Searching for Italy. During his visit to Naples, he referred to his time there as if witnessing a magnificent chaos. The head of the municipal police…

  • By Dr Ant Grimley In 2021 I contacted Dr Paul Pearson, Director and Archivist at the Thomas Merton Center, Bellarmine University, to help me identify a quote that I thought was written by Thomas Merton: ‘a monk either drinks or…