Mar 30 – The Rainbow of Sorrow

Today we suspended the mealtime reading of Merton’s Abbot: The Life and Times of Dom James Fox as Revealed through Letters, Interviews with Monks, Records by Frederick D. Lucas. For the Sacred Triduum our mealtime reading will be chapter one, “Unjust Suffering,” from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s book The Rainbow of Sorrow.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

from Rule of St. Benedict: Chapter 38. The Reader for the Week

Reading will always accompany the meals of the brothers.

References
Current Reading
Sheen, Fulton J. “Unjust Suffering.” In The Rainbow of Sorrow,3-19. New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1938.
Previous Reading
Lucas, F Dean. Merton’s Abbot: The Life and Times of Dom James Fox as Revealed through Letters, Interviews with Monks, Records. Lexington, KY.: Frederick D. Lucas, 2016.