"In his Rule for monasteries, St. Benedict speaks of this journey. And though he sometimes refers to it as a race, towards the very end of his Rule he speaks of it more communally. He says, “Let us prefer nothing whatever to Christ, and may he bring us all together to everlasting life.” All together—that the key. It is now less a race and more a pilgrimage. And as we know from any real pilgrimage, the goal is not to get there first but to get there together.

                                                            Brother Robert Sevensky, OHC