Balaam's Donkey: Random Ruminations For Every Day of the Year

by Michael Casey Ocso

Balaam’s Donkey is a series of daily reflections based on the homilies preached by Cistercian monk Michael Casey over his fifty years of priesthood. What remained of the original homilies was a large box full of index cards with a few talking points on each. From there, Casey has re-created  the homilies and recast them into short reflections, arranged randomly for every day of the year. The range of topics discussed is broad and the approach taken differs with each reflection, most of them colored with a touch of Casey’s whimsy and good humor.

488 pages, Paperback

Published March 8, 2019

Reviews

[Ross Jensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collection is highly eclectic (consisting as it does in selected homilies from five or six decades of preaching), so the quality is inevitably uneven. But Fr. Casey is a wise and humane man, and his unobtrusive insights make for easy, useful reading.

[Michael Laska · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best daily devotional anybody could read!

Father Casey has filled this book with immense wisdom and insight that will challenge you, inspire you, and bless you. Highly recommend this book!