PAZ with Brother Andre of Marmion Abbey, August 18, 2010
I spent time with friends recently. Visiting with friends is always a treat but it is also reassuring to re-affirm friendship and mutual love as I believe good (true) friends are a path to God. Read the Cistercian fathers on this theme. One such Cistercian Father caught my eye in recent years, Baldwin of Forde (1120-1190), said, “no one should be deluded on the love of God, no one should deceive himself: he who does not love his neighbor does not love God” and “So it is by loving one’s neighbor, through a bond of peace and a fetter of love, that the love of God and the unity of the Spirit are maintained in us” (De vita coenobitica, seu communi).
Archbishop Rembert George Weakland, OSB and PAZ, August 19, 2010
Father Stephen Hyrcyniak with Abbot Leo Ryska of St Benedict’s Abbey, August 21, 2010
Father Stephen Hyrcyniak with PAZ, August 21, 2010