Begin with the Prayer of Abandonment. Let’s begin with a story. It’s a true story — all the best stories are true stories — about a sister who loved her brother very much. Her name was St. Scholastica, the twin sister of St. Benedict. Each of them had pledged themselves to religious life, and the rules of the cloister were such that they saw each other only once a year, for less than a day at a time. On one occasion, after many years of this routine, Scholastica begged her brother not to return to the monastery as the day wore on, but to continue their conversation […]