Kenneth Akua SM was ordained deacon by Bishop Thomas Burns SM in Rome on 3 November 2018. Kenneth, who is from Cameroon, is the first Marist seminarian to progress to the fourth year of theology studies in Rome. He has begun a License in Dogmatic Theology at the Gregorian University and is taking part in the Liturgy course offered by the Diocese of Rome for Presiders of Liturgy. His pastoral ministry is with the Sant’Egidio community where he assists people with disabilities. Kenneth will return to the District of Africa next year.Prayer 
A School for Prayer (18)(0)
The Way of the Body
St Dominic and the
‘Nine Ways of Prayer’ (1)
The Body at Prayer
By Fr Craig Larkin SM, 1943 - 2015
An important but little-known book takes us a step further in experiencing the ways of Christian prayer.… More
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A School for Prayer (17)
Lectio Divina
Chartreuse – Guigo the Carthusian
By Fr Craig Larkin SM, 1943 - 2015
THE WEST:
Guigo the Carthusian
Guigo II was the 9th prior of the Grande Chartreuse, France. Little is known of him other than that he became prior of the monastery in 1174 and that after a few years in office he resigned.… More
A School for Prayer (16) – Lectio Divina Subiaco
St Benedict Chartreuse
Guigo the Carthusian
By Fr Craig Larkin sm, 1943 - 2015
St Benedict was born in Nursia, Italy, around the year 480, the son of a noble family.
He went to Rome to study; was repelled by the moral and political decay he saw there; gave up his studies, and went to Subiaco where he lived in a cave in isolation for three years. … More
A School for Prayer (15) – Lectio Divina
Subiaco – St Benedict
Chartreuse – Guigo the Carthusian
By Fr Craig Larkin SM, 1943 - 2015
FROM EAST TO WEST
John Cassian
Our study of the experience of prayer has kept us in the Eastern part of the Christian world: the Desert regions of Egypt, Palestine, Sinai and Syria.… More