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The Christmas Mystery is humanity’s great new beginning, the sure orientation point for all history and each one’s life, the pathway out of social and personal chaos, and the threshold into such tender harmonies as heal hearts and unleash untapped potential. If by the envy of the devil an obstacle thwarted the holiness that men […]
When the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary, His greeting disturbed her and his explanation consoled her. Contemplative prayer unfolds in that polarity of divine disturbance and sacred comfort. Whether disturbing or comforting, every encounter with the Holy One always communicates identity and purpose, the truth about oneself and the mission that God has in store. […]
My father told me last night about his deep, deep sadness. He talked about all the things that he has lost in his life. He felt great despair and despondency Seeing his wife disappear and vanish before his eyes, only a shell of what she once was. He’s almost 98 now. I reminded him of […]
Rages that terrible battle, in deep darkness, deceit, disdain, Divine Obedience cries remain as Rises undeterred the Shepherd’s’ Shadow whose splendor unseen Save under clouds of grace and glance as Gains the dawn, this Day without End. Though hard fought, costing cruel crown and cross, crushed obedience, hell’s cacophony is silenced by Word’s Weakness ablaze […]
Off the edge of inadequacy, into that void, I searched for Him Who would vindicate and rebuild What I destroyed. Into the deep, that step sliding down ravines of misery, abyss swallowing, flooding torrents of chaos, self Vanishing under waves of euphoric delusion and Dreams dashed dead on reality’s rocks – Such shell shocked emptiness, […]
What glory this fiery creature bears In the bottom of that bottomless Abyss A radiance, not her own, but in her radiant being! She knows well that secret cellar Where unseen the Furnace of Love humbly envelops and begins boldly her own loving flame: Nature’s unaided eye cannot see – nescivi! – As she passes […]
Much attention is rightfully rendered to the Head of the Church – Christ. But we need to ask, is the Head really the most important member of the Church? Indeed, the only devotion to “the Head” we have as Catholics is that “Sacred Head surrounded by crown of piercing thorns.” What makes this devotion so […]
St. Paul calls believers of Thessalonica “imitators of the Lord” who received the Word in “affliction” and “the joy of the Holy Spirit.” To imitate is to repeat what another has done. When imitation is made of another out of love, it reveals a beautiful devotion. So one friend imitates the virtues of another […]
“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.’ What if the neighbor who I trust sins against me and robs me of the dignity that is due, am I still to love him? Such a neighbor has taken a hostile stand toward me and has become my enemy. Christ commands me […]
Click here to see the Rosary Offered at the John Paul II Center for Contemplative Culture at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University on October 4, the Feast of St. Francis. We prayed for San Francisco, the City named after him, for California and for our Country. At 5pm (Pacific Time), together with transitional deacons from […]
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