I was in the Brothers’ Priory earlier today, espying on the activities at their Richmond-based Command Central, and was particularly struck by the reading material available to these religious — specifically, the variety thereof. On the same shelf as Dom Gueranger’s Liturgical Year and Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange’s Three Ages of the Interior Life was Barnacle Parp’s Chain Saw Guide by Walter Hall.
The vita mixta is really mixta in these parts. But it was Saint Augustine who called the mixed life the “best way of life” (optimus vitae modus). So, Brothers, work and pray… and saw away!
