Over the Bent World: Reflections for Lent and Easter

The Lenten and Easter seasons are the perfect time for reflection. Many readers have good intentions when it comes to taking part in a daily reflection. Truth be told, writes Daniel J. Heisey, also known as Brother Bruno, a monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey. most of us are no good with books of daily readings. Before long, he notes, we miss a day, and then another day, and then suddenly we are so far behind we put the book back on the shelf with dim hopes we might do better next year. Rather than offer forty readings for each day of Lent, Brother Bruno recognizes this all-too-human tendency and instead provides a baker’s dozen of brief reflections to accompany artwork primarily from the collection of Saint Vincent Archabbey. Thus, the artwork and essays can truly become points for meditation, as the author intends, rather than a Lenten penance.

Brother Bruno’s other works include Prayer Study and Work: Renewing the Benedictine Ideal, and Yet All Shall Be Well, both published by Sacred Winds Press; Saint Vincent Seminary: From Its Origins to the Present, published by Archabbey Publications; the introduction to the book Forward, Always Forward: The History and Construction of the Wimmer Monument, published by Archabbey Publications. He has published widely in such publications as The American Benedictine Review, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, and Homiletic and Pastoral Review. In 2023, he was asked to join the editorial board of American Benedictine Review.