By Michael Patrick O’Brien– For many years, I thought Catholics had no role in the Days of ‘47, the annual Utah celebration of the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in…
Posts published in July 2022
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– In 1960, the famous Kentucky monk/writer Thomas Merton and New Directions published a book called The Wisdom of the Desert, a collection of sayings from the…
By Gary Topping– In my idle moments—which, nowadays in my retirement, seem to be plentiful—I sometimes go to YouTube. You never know what’s going to come up, from the most…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– (Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Monastery Mornings by Michael Patrick O’Brien, published by Paraclete Press in August 2021). During one of our early visits…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– James Fox, the longtime abbot of Kentucky’s Gethsemani Abbey, visited the Abbey of Our Lady of the Holy Trinity Abbey in Huntsville, Utah many times. Gethsemani…