Read June 1996.
A stern generosity runs through it.
The rhythms of monastic life, the hours, the office, the psalms, the seasons, work and prayer.
Error and sin are held to strict account, but then that strictness is set aside and a very human and tangible mercy is insisted upon.
The abbot stands in Christ’s place very tangibly.
The monks are to take great care not to hurt or offend each other.
In the morning they are to encourage each other, “For the sleepy make many excuses.”
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
Søren Kierkegaard
Walker Percy
Bob Dylan
Literature & History
Letters from an American
Beau of the Fifth Column
This American Life
The Writer’s Almanac
San Diego Reader
The Stranger
The Inlander
Adoremus
Charlotte was Both
The Onion
From Empty Hands
Ellen Finnigan
America
Commonweal
First Things
National Review
The New Republic
All Manner of Thing
Gerasene Writers Conference
Scrutinies
DarwinCatholic
Catholic and Enjoying It
Bad Catholic
Universalis
Is My Phylactery Showing?
Quotidian Quintilian
En pocas palabras
William Wilson, Guitarist Extraordinaire
Signposts in a Strange Land
Ben Hatke
Daniel Mitsui
Dappled Things
The Fine Delight
Gene Luen Yang
Wiseblood Books
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I repent of my turkey joke. Thank you for your prayers.
So who's the abbot of Korrektiv?
IC,
The most ancient one among us, of course!
JOB
I'm pretty sure it's Rufus, despite his time in prison. I make too many excuses, and am far too sleepy.
We're a Kierkegaardian house, though. That's not quite the same Rule as Benedict's.
Oh, it's an order now, is it?
Official approval is pending.
Can we be discalced? Or would that be too great a hardship for those of you in the Pacific Northwest?
No, it'd be good for them. But how about we compromise and wear slippers? That's how I live already.
Does the Kierkegaardian third order get to be aesthetes?
Get to be? I'm pretty sure it's required. Drunkenness is, however, optional.