Strangers to the City

Strangers to the City: Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of Saint Benedict by Michael Casey, OCSO is the most challenging of his books that we have read recently and one that is particularly voiced to the monastic. It would be difficult to find a circumstance or aspect of a monk's day that Casey does not penetrate with sharp insight and decades of lived wisdom. As always, he is interested in the questions of why Benedictines do the things we do, how and why we should do them with a greater commitment, and what challenges the making of this commitment. This is a volume dense in thought and difficult to summarize thematically, much like a monastic day!

Brothers' rating: 5 out of 5