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
Meditations
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
Jesus Proceeds through Jerusalem
James Tissot (1836-1902)[1], The Procession in the Streets of Jerusalem (1886-1894) in the Brooklyn Museum Poem XXXII[2] - by Emily Dickinson[3]Hope[4] is the thing with feathers That … [Read more...] about Jesus Proceeds through Jerusalem
The Raising of Lazarus
Juan de Flandes (d. 1519)[1], The Raising of Lazarus (c. 1514-1519) in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain Poem “Quietness”[2] by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)[3] Inside this new … [Read more...] about The Raising of Lazarus
Jesus and a Man Born Blind
Vassily Surikov (1848-1916)[1], Healing of the Man Born Blind by Jesus Christ (1888) in St. Petersburg, Russia at the Imperial Academy of Arts of the Russian Empire.[2] Poem “Listening”[3] by … [Read more...] about Jesus and a Man Born Blind
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
James Tissot (1836-1902)[1] – The Woman of Samaria at the Well (1886-1894) at the Brooklyn Museum The First Commandment of Fiction has mutated from “write what you know” to “stay in your lane.” … [Read more...] about Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
The Transfiguration of the God-Man
Poem If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee.[3] If you want the unseen world, you are not living with your truth.[4] Both wishes are foolish,[5] but you’ll be … [Read more...] about The Transfiguration of the God-Man
The Temptation of the Christ
Poem Midway in the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard it is to tell the nature of that wood, savage, dense and harsh - the very … [Read more...] about The Temptation of the Christ