To be completely upfront, I am not Catholic. I am not even 100% sure I am anything except "just me" but I have always been drawn to learning about various religions and their beliefs. I have actually always been very heavily drawn to the monastic way of life, especially their works of service and time for contemplation. I really think that the Rule would fit in very well with many of the beliefs held here on MDC and would be interested to see what everyone's opinion is. It is super short (my copy is a whopping 95 3inch by 5 inch pages) and even my little hole in the wall library had like 2 copies a few years ago when I first tried to read my way through it. I would love it if a few mommas would like to read their way through it with me. It is very easy to squeeze in a little bit each day ( even the real Benedictines read it in tiny chunks so they read it 3 times a year) We could draw it out as long as you guys wanted by actually reading only the chunks that they would read, or we can read a chapter or two a day however you would like. I would just really love to have some mommas to reflect on this with. And as the title says, your religious preference doesn't matter... I would love to see how other non catholics like myself interpret the ideas.
Crossing my fingers that you mommas are out there!
Crossing my fingers that you mommas are out there!
. I have gone on a couple of unstructured retreats at a Benedictine monastery (before kiddos). Here are a couple of aspects I love that I think can appeal to anyone:
