Contemplation and the Lay Cistercian Life

My latest column is now online at Patheos. It’s called Beholding the One Who Beholds Us and, as always, you can access it by following the link.

It’s my most personal column to date. In it I talk about my recent profession of life promises as a Lay Cistercian, and explain how that is related to my sense of being called to a contemplative life — even though, technically speaking, I live a “mixed” life since I aspire to contemplation without formally entering monastic life.

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