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The CurrentAugust 2022 | Summer Edition
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The General Chapter | Stop, Look, and Listen, or How I Spent My Summer Vacation | Summer Sojourns -
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The General Chapter
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Abbot Michael Brunner and Brother Sixtus Roslevich traveled to England to represent Portsmouth Abbey at the General Chapter of the English Benedictine Congregation at Buckfast Abbey this July. Abbot Michael shares some thoughts on that experience.
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Stop, Look, and Listen, or How I Spent My Summer Vacation
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In discussing his experience of summer, Brother Sixtus Roslevich shares his repeated encounter with the call to listen. He reflects on how, whether it was attentively participating in the General Chapter, vacationing in the Poconos. or carrying on with the summer’s activities here at Portsmouth, “it became clear to me that the concept of listening, and of trying to become better at it, would occupy many of my thoughts and waking hours…”
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Summer Sojourns
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The summer has witnessed renewed travel, including our community participation in the General Chapter, visitors joining us here at Portsmouth, and some vacation trips. These create a sense of renewal, also visible in ongoing work done on the grounds and facilities.
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The SowerThe reading of the Parable of the Sower seems interwoven with the summer experience at Portsmouth.
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This Month in Heaven
