I am back from the monastery and, as usual, I am feeling a little down. It is always hard coming back to life, or that which we call life in the world, after even just a few days spent with the monks. You feel it comin…

Lord, if Thou hast taken such care over the beauty of the lily of the field, which, as Thou Thyself hast said, today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven like dried straw, then, by Thine ineffable mercy, help me return …