pat loughery

Continuing the series of digging into Kurt Neilson’s book, Urban Iona. Here is more proof that Kurt Neilson is in fact one of the voices in my head :-):

For all my prattling about the Celts, there is a Benedictine part of my soul as well – I co-founded a clergy group covenanted to an adaptation of the Benedictine Rule, and when younger was so taken by the romanticism of Thomas Merton’s writings that I imagined myself a Bendictine or Cistercian monk.

Ah, yes; I’d be doing my dissertation on the Celtic monasticism only if I weren’t also so in love with Bendictine spirituality (and dawning into Fransciscan as well..)