The Beer Option – Building Catholic Culture

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The End of the Beer Option? Thoughts on the Closure of Spencer Trappist Brewery

Many of us were excited for the first American Trappist brewery back in 2014 at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts. I was inspired to write The Beer Option: Brewing a Catholic Culture Yesterday & Today by the long tradition of monastic brewing, which pointed to a whole Catholic history Read more…

By Jared Staudt, 3 yearsJune 22, 2022 ago

Benedictine Monasticism

The Spirituality and Mission of a Benedictine Oblate

“Listen, my son, to the teaching of the Master,” Benedict exhorts his monks in the opening line of his Rule. Benedictine monks and nuns place themselves under the tutelage of St. Benedict’s Rule as a way of following Christ, the master. Entering into the monastic life is not taking on Read more…

By Jared Staudt, 5 yearsJune 13, 2020 ago