He spent the greater part of his career as a teacher of Greek and Latin at the Portsmouth Abbey School, a prep school in Rhode Island with an attached monastery.
He attended Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., obtaining a Master of Arts degree there in 1943.
In 1958 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the works of Bede in European monasteries.
He returned to teach at Portsmouth Abbey after that, but a heart attack in 1977 caused him to retire.
Despite his obligations as a secondary school classics teacher and as an active member of his monastic community, he became well known for his critical editions and translations of Bede's writings.