Tom

@dixitinsipiens.bsky.social

"The monastic tradition teaches us that prayer and charity, silence and service, cells and hospitals form a single spiritual fabric."

(Pope Leo XIV)

Hold the phone! 🇨🇦

@holdthephone1.bsky.social

Politicians should forfeit all personal assets upon election to high office and retire, post-term, to ascetic, monastic isolation for life. Discuss.

BOOKSNS

@booksns.bsky.social

Books that centre around historical monastic faith, church intrigue, isolation?

https://https://www.booksns.com/167304/

I've just finished The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley and want more books like it. Similar to Umberto Eco The Name of The Rose, Q by Luther Blissett, anything set around the reformation, …