Category: BenOp

  • The Benedict Option

    If I Werrr King of the Forrrrressssht ✙ JMJ  The Readings for Saturday, 3rd Week of Ordinary Time (B2): II Samuel 12:1-7A, 10-17 Mark 4:35-41 Et ait illis : Quid timidi estis? necdum habetis fidem? And he said to them: Why are you fearful? have you not faith yet?July 4th, 1981,  I was sitting behind the elementary…

  • The Jesus Psalter

    I first heard of the Jesus Psalter reading Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson’s wonderful Come Rack, Come Rope, a love story set in the time of the Elizabethan Pogroms. It was also my first introduction to how those Pogroms were conducted – hunters, star courts, betrayals, simony, etc. Reading such a story can drive one to despair,…