Br. Gregory Morris, O.S.B
@meinradmonk87.bsky.social
Monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey
The other Gregory, not the Great, but "the Father of the Fathers".
The other Gregory, not the Great, but "the Father of the Fathers".
Pinned
Drone Monks
A glimpse of life at @saintmeinrad: sharing the Rule of St. Benedict, sacred music, and reflections with a view from above.
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Recently, a confrere launched a YouTube with drone footage that gives a glimpse of life at Saint Meinrad Archabbey. You might see me in some of the footage, but I am a mere black robed creature amidst the local beauty.
youtube.com/@dronemonks?...
youtube.com/@dronemonks?...
This is you and Kurt friend Kit in the Abbey Church.
my friend says some of my takes are “Sicilian grandma” interpretations of Catholic things. (part of my cultural background is very Chicago-Sicilian.) just imagine a dedicated little corner of my brain looks like this:
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This is you and Kurt friend Kit in the Abbey Church.
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"Life is a series of moments, a path, a journey, a pilgrimage. No matter what words you use to describe it, we all enter into moments that extend beyond the plans we make or the paths we trek."
https://www.saintmeinrad.edu/seminary-blog/on-the-hill/a-pilgrim-s-refuge/
https://www.saintmeinrad.edu/seminary-blog/on-the-hill/a-pilgrim-s-refuge/
A Pilgrim’s Refuge
A reflection by seminarian Tommy Rhodes, Diocese of Owensboro, KY
www.saintmeinrad.edu
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Life is a series of moments, a path, a journey, a pilgrimage. No matter what words you use to describe it, we all enter into moments that extend beyond the plans we make or the paths we trek."
https://www.saintmeinrad.edu/seminary-blog/on-the-hill/a-pilgrim-s-refuge/
https://www.saintmeinrad.edu/seminary-blog/on-the-hill/a-pilgrim-s-refuge/
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@bpdflores.bsky.social suggested at the end of his Q and A that everyone say this prayer after your usual prayers each night and promised it would change you for the better
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
@bpdflores.bsky.social suggested at the end of his Q and A that everyone say this prayer after your usual prayers each night and promised it would change you for the better
Those who claim Lonergan is too Kantian need to pick up Newman's Grammar of Assent and look at how much Newman idioms are pervading Lonergan's Insight and Method in Theology.
if someone accuses Lonergan of being a Kantian I’m just gonna use that “tradition” as an example of what I mean when I say you should go understand the original questions and their texts and not just what people tell you. stakes are less scary than doctrine/dogma, but more annoying to me personally.
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Those who claim Lonergan is too Kantian need to pick up Newman's Grammar of Assent and look at how much Newman idioms are pervading Lonergan's Insight and Method in Theology.
Once, I told a confrere to beware of hiding amidst geese if he was asked to be a bishop. Today is his Feast Day.
11th November is the feast of St Martin of Tours. Here men and women are depicted hawking while St Martin is sharing his cloak with a beggar.
BL Add MS 15219; 2nd half of the 12th century; Tournai; ff.11v, 12r
BL Add MS 15219; 2nd half of the 12th century; Tournai; ff.11v, 12r
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Once, I told a confrere to beware of hiding amidst geese if he was asked to be a bishop. Today is his Feast Day.
Wife had this meme dated to 2019 unaccountably yet perceptively saved on her phone
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
For the theo nerds: Dr. Jennifer Newsome Martin gave an excellent presentation on HUvB, Communio, and his relationship to Karl Rahner.
Saint Meinrad hosted a conference this week titled “Deepening Communion in a Polarized World.” Thank you to everyone that made this conference possible. For more photos from the conference visit: https://saint-meinrad.smugmug.com/Seminary/Seminary-2025-26/Polarization-Conference-2025
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
For the theo nerds: Dr. Jennifer Newsome Martin gave an excellent presentation on HUvB, Communio, and his relationship to Karl Rahner.
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Our propaedeutic year introduces men who are discerning priesthood to the richness of Catholic culture, while helping them to discover how their story and vocation fits within that broader story.
https://www.osvnews.com/seminaries-report-seeing-fruits-of-discipleship-discernment-in-propadeutic-year/
https://www.osvnews.com/seminaries-report-seeing-fruits-of-discipleship-discernment-in-propadeutic-year/
Seminaries report seeing fruits of discipleship, discernment in ‘propadeutic year’ - OSV News
Seminary formation was already notoriously long and recently, an additional year has been added: the propadeutic year. Yet few are complaining.
www.osvnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Our propaedeutic year introduces men who are discerning priesthood to the richness of Catholic culture, while helping them to discover how their story and vocation fits within that broader story.
https://www.osvnews.com/seminaries-report-seeing-fruits-of-discipleship-discernment-in-propadeutic-year/
https://www.osvnews.com/seminaries-report-seeing-fruits-of-discipleship-discernment-in-propadeutic-year/
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It’s pretty easy to say: JD Vance is a Catholic and he’s being a bad one. He is directly contravening the Church’s stance on human dignity in multiple ways, but his refusal to disavow antisemitism is especially disturbing given the Church’s own history and its own repentance of that history.
November 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It’s pretty easy to say: JD Vance is a Catholic and he’s being a bad one. He is directly contravening the Church’s stance on human dignity in multiple ways, but his refusal to disavow antisemitism is especially disturbing given the Church’s own history and its own repentance of that history.
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Mary giving Jesus a flower
BnF Abbadie Ethiopian 105; የዳዊት Dāwit, Book of Psalms; Reign of Ba'eda Maryam (1468-1478); Tigray; f.160v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF Abbadie Ethiopian 105; የዳዊት Dāwit, Book of Psalms; Reign of Ba'eda Maryam (1468-1478); Tigray; f.160v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Mary giving Jesus a flower
BnF Abbadie Ethiopian 105; የዳዊት Dāwit, Book of Psalms; Reign of Ba'eda Maryam (1468-1478); Tigray; f.160v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF Abbadie Ethiopian 105; የዳዊት Dāwit, Book of Psalms; Reign of Ba'eda Maryam (1468-1478); Tigray; f.160v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
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Happy #BlackCatholicHistoryMonth! Don't miss out on our inaugural Black Catholic Awareness Week:
- 11/6, 6pm PT: Feast of All Saints of Africa webinar
- 11/7, 4:30pm PT: Knights of Peter Claver founders' day webinar
- 11/8, 5pm PT: Daniel Rudd Lecture in SF
www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/bcaw2025
- 11/6, 6pm PT: Feast of All Saints of Africa webinar
- 11/7, 4:30pm PT: Knights of Peter Claver founders' day webinar
- 11/8, 5pm PT: Daniel Rudd Lecture in SF
www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/bcaw2025
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Happy #BlackCatholicHistoryMonth! Don't miss out on our inaugural Black Catholic Awareness Week:
- 11/6, 6pm PT: Feast of All Saints of Africa webinar
- 11/7, 4:30pm PT: Knights of Peter Claver founders' day webinar
- 11/8, 5pm PT: Daniel Rudd Lecture in SF
www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/bcaw2025
- 11/6, 6pm PT: Feast of All Saints of Africa webinar
- 11/7, 4:30pm PT: Knights of Peter Claver founders' day webinar
- 11/8, 5pm PT: Daniel Rudd Lecture in SF
www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/bcaw2025
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Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology will present a conference on polarization, titled “Deepening Communion in a Polarized World,” at Saint Meinrad on November 4-6, 2025.
www.saintmeinrad.edu/graduate-the...
www.saintmeinrad.edu/graduate-the...
Polarization Conference
A convocation bringing together leaders to model healthy discourse, seek common ground, and building unity in the Church.
www.saintmeinrad.edu
August 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology will present a conference on polarization, titled “Deepening Communion in a Polarized World,” at Saint Meinrad on November 4-6, 2025.
www.saintmeinrad.edu/graduate-the...
www.saintmeinrad.edu/graduate-the...
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"We all have particular gifts given us by God, not least of which is bringing our Blackness to the Catholic faith. Reading, praying over, and joining with others to implement the final document of the Synod [will] enable us to serve and witness."
—Daryl Grigsby
buff.ly/ZL1HDsC
—Daryl Grigsby
buff.ly/ZL1HDsC
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"We all have particular gifts given us by God, not least of which is bringing our Blackness to the Catholic faith. Reading, praying over, and joining with others to implement the final document of the Synod [will] enable us to serve and witness."
—Daryl Grigsby
buff.ly/ZL1HDsC
—Daryl Grigsby
buff.ly/ZL1HDsC
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REMINDER: Submissions for the Spring Colloquium at Marquette University on the theme "Belief: (Still) Today's Issue" are due on December 1. See the CFP below. If you have questions, my email is listed on there or my DMs are open.
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
REMINDER: Submissions for the Spring Colloquium at Marquette University on the theme "Belief: (Still) Today's Issue" are due on December 1. See the CFP below. If you have questions, my email is listed on there or my DMs are open.
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Theo-Drama 4 really is a lot of fun. I’d be willing to do some kind of Christmas break “course” on it if anyone wants. We can Zoom about it or something.
November 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Theo-Drama 4 really is a lot of fun. I’d be willing to do some kind of Christmas break “course” on it if anyone wants. We can Zoom about it or something.
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“Some vital aspect of [Christ’s] message—liberation from sin, insight into the heart of God, brotherhood among men in this heart—is taken over, manipulated and ‘staged’ as if man himself had produced it. All subsequent dualisms (including racism) belong to this family.”
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”
November 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“Some vital aspect of [Christ’s] message—liberation from sin, insight into the heart of God, brotherhood among men in this heart—is taken over, manipulated and ‘staged’ as if man himself had produced it. All subsequent dualisms (including racism) belong to this family.”
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Random side note: I am somewhat a Poe fan, but he is the only gothic fiction writer I was exposed to in my parochial education.
"But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and lighthearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.
In the midst of a government shutdown, as masked ICE agents roam America’s cities with impunity, with lines at food banks across the country growing, and farmers at risk as America bails out Argentina instead…
Donald Trump threw a Roaring 20s/Great Gatsby themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump threw a Roaring 20s/Great Gatsby themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.
November 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Random side note: I am somewhat a Poe fan, but he is the only gothic fiction writer I was exposed to in my parochial education.
"But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and lighthearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.
In the midst of a government shutdown, as masked ICE agents roam America’s cities with impunity, with lines at food banks across the country growing, and farmers at risk as America bails out Argentina instead…
Donald Trump threw a Roaring 20s/Great Gatsby themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump threw a Roaring 20s/Great Gatsby themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago.
November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and lighthearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.
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Wisdom with crown, book, and sceptre
BnF MS Latin 116; Biblia Latina, Part 2; 12th century; Chartres; f.13v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF MS Latin 116; Biblia Latina, Part 2; 12th century; Chartres; f.13v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wisdom with crown, book, and sceptre
BnF MS Latin 116; Biblia Latina, Part 2; 12th century; Chartres; f.13v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
BnF MS Latin 116; Biblia Latina, Part 2; 12th century; Chartres; f.13v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
Seminarian: If the Dominicans are the "dogs" of the Church, then the Benedictines are the "ravens" of the Church.
Me: Yeah, if you try to poison our abbot or kill one of us, we will peck you to death!
Me: Yeah, if you try to poison our abbot or kill one of us, we will peck you to death!
October 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Seminarian: If the Dominicans are the "dogs" of the Church, then the Benedictines are the "ravens" of the Church.
Me: Yeah, if you try to poison our abbot or kill one of us, we will peck you to death!
Me: Yeah, if you try to poison our abbot or kill one of us, we will peck you to death!
The memoir of Dietrich von Hildebrand during 1922-1934 is marked by bewilderment, desolation, and resolve. Imagine yourself witnessing friends, fellow intellectuals, neighbors, fellow believers, and entire segments of the country ascent and be influenced by Nazi propoganda and political violence.
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The memoir of Dietrich von Hildebrand during 1922-1934 is marked by bewilderment, desolation, and resolve. Imagine yourself witnessing friends, fellow intellectuals, neighbors, fellow believers, and entire segments of the country ascent and be influenced by Nazi propoganda and political violence.
I don't know legalise language, but I suspect "unusual" and "improper" are those words you would not want to describe one's behavior in the judicial realm.
October 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I don't know legalise language, but I suspect "unusual" and "improper" are those words you would not want to describe one's behavior in the judicial realm.
“When an Orthodox theologian draws on Aquinas, must the result be a kind of hybrid of Eastern and Western thought? That may well happen, but it need not happen. In the case of Scholarios’s use of Aquinas…we do not have a tertium quid, neither Catholic nor Orthodox.”
October 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“When an Orthodox theologian draws on Aquinas, must the result be a kind of hybrid of Eastern and Western thought? That may well happen, but it need not happen. In the case of Scholarios’s use of Aquinas…we do not have a tertium quid, neither Catholic nor Orthodox.”
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"How we care for one another matters, and what we do for the most vulnerable in our society and in our communities matters most, as far as God is concerned."
https://www.saintmeinrad.edu/seminary-blog/echoes-from-the-bell-tower/care-of-the-infirm/
https://www.saintmeinrad.edu/seminary-blog/echoes-from-the-bell-tower/care-of-the-infirm/
Care of the Infirm
How we care for one another matters, and what we do for the most vulnerable in our society and in our communities matters most, as far as God is concerned.
www.saintmeinrad.edu
October 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"How we care for one another matters, and what we do for the most vulnerable in our society and in our communities matters most, as far as God is concerned."
https://www.saintmeinrad.edu/seminary-blog/echoes-from-the-bell-tower/care-of-the-infirm/
https://www.saintmeinrad.edu/seminary-blog/echoes-from-the-bell-tower/care-of-the-infirm/
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Pope today: “With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty but grave crimes committed and tolerated by the state. Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted, even celebrated politically, that treat these 'undesirables' like garbage.”
October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Pope today: “With the abuse of vulnerable migrants, we are witnessing not the legitimate exercise of national sovereignty but grave crimes committed and tolerated by the state. Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted, even celebrated politically, that treat these 'undesirables' like garbage.”