We are staying the weekend with friends in Lake Geneva, WI.

As is our custom, John and I will get up early for the first Mass at his parish, St. Benedict Catholic Church in Fontana.

I wrote about Benedict and his influence on our Anglican pattern of prayer a few days ago. Obviously, we’re hardly the only ones so influenced by his vision of a simple Rule of life — “nothing harsh, nothing burdensome” — which will help us, by ordering and organizing our prayer, study, and work, to cherish Christ above all and to cherish those around us, for whom Christ came into the world.