We are organizing another online Virtual Chapter for 7.30 p.m. on Thursday, 14 October. This may be the last time we use the Talkshoe interface because a generous donation from Buckfast Abbey should enable us to use a more reliable system (free to you though not to us). The topic we shall be discussing is silence. We shall begin with a very brief sketch of the role of silence and restraint of speech in monastic life then throw the meeting open to all for shared insights, questions and quibbles. Join us if you can.

Our Veilaudio work continues apace with the preparation of our first audio books on CD for the visually impaired. If you could spread the word about our fundraiser concert (details below), and better still, come yourself, that would be wonderful.

Finally, a word about today's section of RB. It is easy to pretend to be humble; it is also easy to believe oneself to be worthless. True humility, however, is as happy to acknowledge its own giftedness as it is another's. What it does not do is insult its heavenly Creator by suggesting He makes junk nor does it fall into the trap of the self-made man who worships at the shrine of his creator. Perhaps that is why true humility is hard to find. We cannot bear too much reality.

A Fundraiser Concert at St George's R.C. Cathedral, Southwark

Thursday, 28 October 2010, at 7.30 p.m.
Tickets £15, to include a glass of wine
Box office: tickets@stgeorges.org.uk and 020 7202 2161
Organized by a Friend of Holy Trinity Monastery