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A Poem

For Sanity’s Sake

November 25, 2020

Fr. Frederick Edlefsen

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason,” said G.K Chesterton. “Poets do not go mad,” he said. As for the ones who did go mad, poetry was...Read more

These falling waters flow from a wild hillside on the grounds of a Monastery in the Catskill Mountains, long ago settled by my Dutch ancestors and made famous by Rip Van Winkle’s twenty-year slumber. The Monastery...Read more

Another Tale from The Enchanted Realm

November 24, 2020

I was on retreat at the Monastery of Bethlehem, in New York ‘s snowy Catskills, in April 2018. One evening, while walking back to my hermitage, I passed a pile of firewood topped with large wooden sign, hand-painted in this...Read more

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November 23, 2020