Reflecting on our Rule: Week 40
We trust in God,
living in the paradox of being
purposefully lost,
deliberately uncertain,
and resolutely confused
Rule Reflections
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 39
We can do worse than remember a principle
which gives us a firm rock
and leaves the maximum elasticity for our minds:
the principle
‘Hold to Christ
and for the rest be totally uncommitted’
Herbert Butterfield
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 38
We will walk again the ancient paths
repair the broken altars
restore the city ruins
raise up the foundation
of many generations
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 37
Go to your CELL
and your cell
will teach you everything
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 36
Seek my FACE
not my HANDS
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 35
A prayer that is
quiet and contemplative
with a faith that is
active and contagious
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 34
There can be no Northumbria Community
without the monastery
and the monastery
exists for mission
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 33
Dynamic and erratic, spontaneous and radical,
audacious and immature,
committed if not altogether coherent,
ecumenically open and often experimental,
visible here and there, now and then, but unsettled institutionally.
Almost monastic in nature but, most of all,enacting a fearful hope for human life in society.
William Stringfellow
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 32
The renewal of the church
will come from a new type of monasticism,
which has only in common with the old
an uncompromising allegianceto the Sermon on the Mount.
It’s high time men and women
banded together to do this.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 31
Don’t look for the Kingdom on the mountains
for it’s coming in the streets
Ken Medema