Monos blog

  • Prayer and LifeLiving 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…

  • Personal EncounterI 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…

  • By Dr Ant GrimleyI 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…

  • By Dr Ant GrimleyIn 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…