http://cardinalseansblog.org/

OH awesome blog, thanks for sharing, I think it's just wonderful to see the religious with blogs reaching out to the faithful and those discerning!

WOWOW! I didn't know those Cistercians even existed, and there are almost 50 of them?? how cool is that?!?!?

I love reading religous blogs! It's very inspiring and uplifting.

Here's my own:
http://www.xanga.com/ADiscerningSoul
Enjoy!

I need to get my own blog up and running, but I've been so busy. ..it's been on my 'to do' list, just not started yet. Is it free to do this?

I agree I need to start one too, and HisChild: I dont' think they cost anything. Jessica: thanks for sharing yours!

God Bless You!

wow, thanks for posting the link that's great

bump.
the good Cardinal is again discussing vocatinos this week

There is also the oldest trappist community in North America, inSpenser, Mass. I don't know if that is part of the Boston Archdiocese or not.

not so great as it used to be..
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Catholic monk and Zen sensei: Trappist's new title sign of church's 'inevitable' encounter with the East

National Catholic Reporter, July 16, 2004 by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy
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On April 17, at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Mass., Trappist priest Kevin Hunt was installed as a Zen sensei (teacher), making him the first North American Trappist to be both Catholic monk and authorized instructor of Zen. Jesuit Fr. Robert Kennedy, a Zen roshi (master) and Hunt's most recent teacher, oversaw the installation.
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Approximately 80 people--Hunt's friends, relatives and fellow Trappists --attended the ceremony in the abbey's chapter room, traditionally reserved in cloister for the abbot's weekly meeting with the monks. At the solemn pounding of a large Japanese drum, a beaming Hunt and Kennedy, bearing a statue of the Buddha's head, processed in with other members of their Zen meditation community, including a rabbi and two Catholic nuns.
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Trappist priest/monk Kevin Hunt (70), on his knees, is installed by his Zen master
Jesuit Fr. Robert Kennedy, as the first American Trappist instructor of Zen Buddhism.

The ceremony took place at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, on April 17, 2004.

Under the "protection" of Buddha (statue in the back)
and filing in to the cadence of a Japanese drum, the procession reached the Abbey's Chapter Room.
There the installment was made: after the imposition of hands (picture above)
whereby Kennedy made Hunt his successor, the latter
received the "Robe of Liberation" - a black Japanese kimono - and his teaching staff.

Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, General Superior of the Jesuits, wrote a letter
praising Hunt's achievement as "one that we can all celebrate in thanksgiving to God."
According to Kolvenbach, it is through Zen meditation
that Catholics can become aware of the loving presence of God.

Hunt predicts that Buddhism will change Catholicism.