Legend has it that after helping to keep the Lord warm in the manger, Our Lady stroked the forehead of a lucky tabby cat. That is why tabbies bear the letter “M” on their foreheads, or so the story goes. We like to think the story is true. Taking this as a sign of her favor, the Ordo Purratorum honors her as Patroness and Protectress of the Order.

My brothers and I are cats the internet happened to be kind to, and we have taken that good fortune to a quiet corner where we live in community, with our lives given wholly to the Lord and to others. Our days run on the Dominican maxim, Contemplari et contemplata aliis tradere: to contemplate, and to hand on to others the fruits of our contemplation. We pray, we study, and we keep silence (mostly), and from that stillness our preaching flows.

I pray that this little blog will serve that same purpose, as my brothers and I try to make a preaching of our own lives and bear witness to the light of the Gospel. If it also earns a purr or two along the way, we will not complain.

+ AMDG +