Jerome Kodell, OSB, is a monk of Subiaco Abbey, where he has honed both his biblical scholarship and his leadership skills as the former abbot. He is a contributor to Give Us This Day and the author of several books, including Twelve Keys to Prayer; Don’t Trust the Abbot: Musings from the Monastery, The Eucharist in the New Testament; John the Baptist, Forerunner; Barnabas, Man for Others; and co-author of Waiting in Joyful Hope 2015-16 with Genevieve Glen, OSB.

Kodell’s text supplies an easy-to-read set of reflections on key topics like hospitality, lectio divina, prayerful work, and silence as well as some rumination on common misconceptions surrounding monastic life. Overall this little anthology would be an asset to any collection of contemporary light spiritual reading.Catholic Studies

Jerome Kodell, OSB, is a monk of Subiaco Abbey, where he has honed both his biblical scholarship and his leadership skills as the former abbot. He is a contributor to Give Us This Day and the author of several books, including Twelve Keys to Prayer; Don’t Trust the Abbot: Musings from the Monastery, The Eucharist in the New Testament; John the Baptist, Forerunner; Barnabas, Man for Others; and co-author of Waiting in Joyful Hope 2015-16 with Genevieve Glen, OSB.

Kodell’s text supplies an easy-to-read set of reflections on key topics like hospitality, lectio divina, prayerful work, and silence as well as some rumination on common misconceptions surrounding monastic life. Overall this little anthology would be an asset to any collection of contemporary light spiritual reading.Catholic Studies

Jerome Kodell, OSB, is a monk of Subiaco Abbey, where he has honed both his biblical scholarship and his leadership skills as the former abbot. He is a contributor to Give Us This Day and the author of several books, including Twelve Keys to Prayer; Don’t Trust the Abbot: Musings from the Monastery, The Eucharist in the New Testament; John the Baptist, Forerunner; Barnabas, Man for Others; and co-author of Waiting in Joyful Hope 2015-16 with Genevieve Glen, OSB.

Kodell’s text supplies an easy-to-read set of reflections on key topics like hospitality, lectio divina, prayerful work, and silence as well as some rumination on common misconceptions surrounding monastic life. Overall this little anthology would be an asset to any collection of contemporary light spiritual reading.Catholic Studies