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The CurrentJan 24 - 30, 2021
In This Week's Current:
Musings from the Director of Oblates | Liturgy Resumes for the School |Seat of Wisdom, Queen of Peace -
Musings from the Director of Oblates
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Brother Sixtus Roslevich reflects on his long connection with the Manquehue Apostolic Movement, particularly through the lens of his retreat in Patagonia in 2002. He tells us that his journey, strengthened by lectio divina and impacted by a powerful conversion experience, and enriched through encounters with Abbot Patrick Barry, founder Jose Manuel Eguiguren, and others of the Movement, had an undeniable impact on his monastic vocation.
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Liturgy Resumes for the School
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This weekend of January 23-24 marks the return of boarding students to the School, prior to in-person classes resuming on Monday. This return thus also marks the resumption of in-person liturgies for the School, with the student population returning to Saturday evening and Sunday morning Mass.
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Seat of Wisdom, Queen of Peace
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Wisdom is linked to our monastery’s patroness, the Blessed Virgin Mary, whom we invoke as “Queen of Peace.” We find this link indirectly in the Letter of James, who speaks of heavenly wisdom as “first of all pure, then peace-loving...” The listing James goes on to provide seems to paint a personality resembling that which our tradition associates with Our Lady: “clement, loving, sweet.” We look at different expressions of this insight, aided by artwork of the monastery.
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WisdomThe relation of Our Lady to wisdom prompts a reflection on the nature of wisdom and how it is lived out, in this monastic community and in Christian life. The statue in our church of Our Lady, Seat of Wisdom, seems to help us along this journey.
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This Week in Heaven
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The week offers us a series of important scriptural witnesses to faith. In the Conversion of Saint Paul (Monday, January 25), and Timothy and Titus (Wednesday, January 27). In Robert, Alberic, and Stephen (Tuesday, January 26) we find later foundational figures, the founders of the Cistercian Order, at the Abbey of Citeaux in France. And if we are to continue the theme of saints foundational to our faith, we can surely consider Thomas Aquinas (Thursday, January 28) no less so, in terms of the theological tradition of Thomism that has remained such a central framework in the orthodox expression of Christian faith.
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