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Author: Anthony Grimley
Living The Hours
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 life, there is a ‘daily office’ for their use in some church prayer-books; marking moments…
Ending and Beginning
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 my life. One of those for me is T S Eliot’s, “Little Gidding”, the last…
Magnificent Chaos
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 of Naples said to Stanley, ‘here in our chaos, things work’. He talked about the…
A monk either drinks or prays
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 prays.’ He wrote back and said that he has never come across the quote as…