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Good Friday Musings
Last fall I did an on-line version of St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises (an experience that I highly recommend). The course includes the following video as part of a series of meditations on the Passion of Jesus. Vinita Hampton Wright’s poem about … Continue reading
The Serene Disciple
When In The Soul Of The Serene Disciple by Thomas Merton When in the soul of the serene disciple With no more Fathers to imitate Poverty is a success, It is a small thing to say the roof is gone: … Continue reading
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The Grace Open to the Atheist in the Village
In Villages God Does Not Live in Corners God does not only live in the corners of the ceiling, as many scoffers like to say, but everywhere. He sanctifies roofs and plates, bowls and cooking pans, and honestly divides every … Continue reading
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So Strange and Wild A Guest
Nativity In the dark, a child might ask, What is the world? just to hear his sister promise, An unfinished wing of heaven, just to hear his brother say, A house inside a house, but most of all to hear … Continue reading
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Be Generous Toward Each Day
No, no, there is no going back. Less and less you are that possibility you were. More and more you have become those lives and deaths that have belonged to you. You have become a sort of grave containing much … Continue reading
In the Light of This Unlikely World
A Prayer among Friends by John Daniel Among other wonders of our lives, we are alive with one another, we walk here in the light of this unlikely world that isn’t ours for long. May we spend generously the time we … Continue reading
Consider the Lilies
Camas Lilies Consider the lilies of the field, the blue banks of camas opening into acres of sky along the road. Would the longing to lie down and be washed by that beauty abate if you knew their usefulness, how … Continue reading
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Looking for the Garden
For the garden is the only place there is, but you will not find it Until you have looked for it everywhere and found it nowhere that is not a desert. –W.H. Auden, “For the Time Being”
In the Inbox
A poem by Jose Orez: From: Coordinator of Volunteer Services “We have a young man, thirty-six, on hospice who has a very young child. They want someone to help him do a life review and perhaps put some pictures together for … Continue reading
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God Pours Light
GOD POURS LIGHT God pours light into every cup, quenching darkness. The proudly pious stuff their cups with parchment and critique the taste of ink while God pours light and the trees lift their limbs without worry of redemption, every … Continue reading
