Father Ralph Wright, OSB, was born in England in 1938 and received his early education at Ampleforth College in Yorkshire. He spent two years in the British Army before becoming a monk at Ampleforth Abbey. After coming down from Oxford, he spent four years studying theology at Fribourg in Switzerland. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1970. He currently resides at Saint Louis Abbey, St. Louis, MO, where he is vocation director and professor of theology.