Monastic Wisdom for Everyday Living

An archive of sermons, workshops, and teachings that seek to distill the collective wisdom of the past
and offer practical counsel for living in today’s world.

For the four Tuesdays in Advent, the Brothers are offering a preaching series, “Practicing Patience.”  We invite you to join us for the service, followed by a simple supper and conversation.  Join us as we wait, watch, listen, and look for the coming of the Lord.

Wait – Br. Mark Brown

Br. Mark Brown asks: “How are we to wait?” He suggests that Christian waiting need not be passive, but can be active and creative—animated by Christ’s love, creative wisdom, and Spirit.

Watch – Br. Geoffrey Tristram

Br. Geoffrey Tristram sounds the watchman’s trumpet call, the clarion call of Advent, “Look.  Wake Up.  Watch for the Signs.” And he suggests how God might be calling us, this Advent, to look clearly and honestly at our lives—and take action.

Listen – Br. Kevin Hackett

Br. Kevin Hackett urges us—in these noisy, confusing, and isolating times—to understand the value of listening.  Who might need your listening ear today?  What might God be asking you to hear?

Look – Br. Curtis Almquist

How are we to look, and at what, and what for?  Br. Curtis Almquist invites us to look now, and at ourselves, and for wonder.  “Presume that your life is surrounded and informed by God’s daily visitation.”  Look for it.

Sermon Series

Conversations on the Way

Looking to the fundamentals of the Christian faith.

The Man · The Message · The Movement

Toward Larger Life: Sermons on Resurrection

In Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, we are given the invitation to move toward life that is larger, more expansive, broader, higher, than anything we have ever imagined.

Complete, With Questions · Believe In It? I’ve Seen It! · Cavemen and Potatoes · Bowed But Not Bound · The Secret of Self-Surrender · Look to the Glory

A Living Tradition

The Brothers, discuss their experience and practice of living their Rule of Life.

View the discussion here

Longing for Christ

Reflecting on the promises and gifts that God makes to us in his Son, Jesus.

Peace · Judgment · Salvation · Light

Tent of Meeting

Exploring what it means to worship God at all times and in all places.

Wilderness · Shrine · Temple · Tent

Breaking the Word

This series breaks open central words of the faith to nourish the soul.

Conversion · Forgiveness · Grace · Redemption · Passion

Teach Us to Pray

Teaching on the seven classic forms of prayer.

Praise · Thanksgiving · Intercession · Adoration · Oblation · Penitence · Petition

World Turned Upside-Down

This Eastertide series draws from stories in Acts to reflect on finding Jesus in our volatile world.

Breathe · Life · Resurrection · Gaze · Believe

Rule of Life

Shares spiritual practices drawn from the Brothers’ Rule of Life.

Community · Prayer & Life · Silence

Theological Reflections

Resurrection

A meditation on the power of Jesus’ resurrection, here and now and always.

Resurrection

Incarnation

What does it mean for God to be present to us in the flesh, every moment?

Incarnation

Transfiguration

A meditation on the transformative power of daily prayer.

Transfiguration

Discernment in Prayer

Explores the role of prayer in making life choices and discovering our calling.

Vocation · Discovering Vocation · Trusting Vocation · Hearing God’s Voice