After the first couple of days, I had to dismiss the romantic notion I could live a peaceful, contemplative life. Indeed, the pleasant quietude and routine revealed my own distractions more intensely, as if I were looking at a wound through a microscope. Monastic life, I concluded, is not a fairytale world where introverts like myself can go to live happily ever after
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Be Vigilant, Evil Comes Back Under New Guises In his annual Christmas greeting to Officials of the Curia, Pope Francis asks them to always be grateful for the graces God grants us, to never think they are no longer in need of conversion, and to contribute to peace in every way.