Monk?

Too many things have been happening, some good, some not, which has kept me from Monk? Blog. I’m afraid it’s going to be that way for awhile. I’ve been informed that, due to budget shortfalls, I’ll no longer have a job; my independent project and finals for two other courses I’m taking are due within a few weeks, and my wife and I are putting our house on the market and getting ready to move to North Carolina! If that isn’t enough our greyhound is very sick and we’ve spent hours shuttling her back and forth from the animal hospital. Yep, it’s kind of a busy time.

So, no posts until things are settled a bit. I recommend visiting Br. Mark Worsham’s vocation blog at VocationsConnect Newsletter, something very similar to what I’m doing. Until then, say a prayer my wife and I land on our feet after all this - God willing. Peace!

Tim

Ginny at frontiernet sent the following update on the movie of the Carthusians made at the Grand Chartreuse. Thanks, Ginny.

The US premiere of the film will take place in NY at the New Directors New Films Festival at the Museum of Modern Art. “A U.S. distribution is not closed yet” says Thorsten Schaumann, Head of Bavaria Film International, “but we are in intense talks with various companies. This is not a normal film like a lot of other movies: Being presented, quickly sold, released and quickly forgotten again. It took 20 years to create the film and it needs to be treated with a lot of care. This is why we are taking our time to find the right partner.”

It is good that I have been out to the common work more often, even though I nearly set the whole forest on fire yesterday burning brush out by Saint Gertrude’s field on the slope nearest the lake.

Wind … flames springing up in the leaves across the creek like the spread of attachments in an unmortified soul!

So, confortetur cor tuum et viriliter age!* Here are the things to be done:
Many lights burning ought to be put out.
Kindle no new fires. Live in the warmth of the sun.

*(do manfully, and let your heart take courage. Ps 26:14)

Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas, March 10, 1951, The Saturday before Passion Sunday