By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Monks are good examples of spirituality. This is true, of course, not only for men. Yet, it also is true that monks are good examples of…
Posts published in June 2022
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Fifty years ago, I stumbled upon a book now a hundred years old that I expect my daughter and I will continue to love together, for…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Well before any monks arrived there seventy-five years ago in July 1947, the old Trappist monastery—located in Huntsville in the far eastern side of Weber County…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– One of the most popular songs when I was growing up, surprisingly, was about prayer. Burt Bacharach wrote it, and both Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin…