Dad A Thought I have searched the Gospels for evidence of the influence of his parents on his life: the way he handled himself, the way he responded to people and things, the way he set his … [Read more...] about The Advent Meditations – Week 4
The Advent Meditations – Week 3
Arise, My Friend, and Come A Thought Both John the Baptist and Jesus were especially allergic[1] to the presence of hypocrisy. We might then find it valuable for us to think about this in this … [Read more...] about The Advent Meditations – Week 3
The Advent Meditations – Week 2
"Listen, and You Will Live" Matthew 11: 11 Amen, I [Jesus] say to you, among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist.[2] Pope Francis, “A Homily on Holy … [Read more...] about The Advent Meditations – Week 2
The Advent Meditations – Week 1
"Imagination as the Healer" Marilynne Robinson (b. 1943) – “I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think the … [Read more...] about The Advent Meditations – Week 1
#65 – The Healing of Language
Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)[1] - “Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity … [Read more...] about #65 – The Healing of Language
#64 – Things Visible and Invisible
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 CE)[1], Summa Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part, Question 30 – on Mercy - I answer that, As Augustine says (De Civ. Dei ix.), mercy is heartfelt sympathy for … [Read more...] about #64 – Things Visible and Invisible
#63 – What We Hold
“What has happened to our ability to dwell in unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something … [Read more...] about #63 – What We Hold
#62- Insurrection
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ (1881-1955)[3] – “What the future imposes on our present existence is not exactly a feeling of depression; it's rather a sort of seriousness, of detachment, of a … [Read more...] about #62- Insurrection
#61 – On Attention – Look Where You Are Not Looking
Niels Larsen Stevns (Danish, 1864-1941)[1] – “Christ and Zacchaeus” (1913), kept at the Randers Museum of Art.[2] Concerning the text in Luke 19:1-10. (If you wish to study this painting, then go to: … [Read more...] about #61 – On Attention – Look Where You Are Not Looking
#60 – Lying in Wait at the Door
Claude Joseph Vernet (1714-1789)[2], Cain and Abel Bringing Their Sacrifices (1789), held in the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE), Confessions, from Book … [Read more...] about #60 – Lying in Wait at the Door