· 14 April 2008 | 339 words
Yesterday evening, I was reading this certain book by a particular author who was opening windows and doors for me to paths of insights into metaphysics, mysticism, the mystery of God, etc., when all of a sudden, in one paragraph,...
· 18 March 2008 | 251 words
From Br. Joseph -- This is the sixth reflection on seven signposts for the season of Lent (and for all seasons). Pray always. Prays always; if necessary, use words. Our words in prayer are very important, be them words of...
· 7 March 2008 | 21 words
God is like this... showing up where you don't want Him, where you least expect to find Him. [image via]...
· 11 February 2008 | 898 words
Signposts point to where we want to go. Follow, or don't follow. There are seven signposts listed below because seven is the number of completeness. No claim of originality is made for the signs, excerpt maybe for their grouping. Keep...
· 6 February 2008 | 126 words
From Br. Joseph -- Here is a simple prayer to start each day during Lent. As with all prayer, liturgy, worship, and spiritual reading, it is to draw us deeper into relationship with God, our Father. Father, I call upon...
· 26 January 2008 | 91 words
I rediscovered this piece of dialogue from the movie Matrix between Neo and the Spoon Boy in the waiting room of the Oracle's apartment: Boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the...
· 25 December 2007 | 68 words
If a tree falls, it makes a lot of noise; but if a thousand flowers bloom, it happens in the greatest of silence. -- Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Something to ponder this Christmas day... Wake me up Father so...
· 13 November 2007 | 180 words
From Br. Joseph -- There is a philosopher's axiom that says, "Whatever is received is received according to the mode of the receiver." In other words, how you see is what you see. This is best illustrated by a little...
· 9 October 2007 | 482 words
From Br. Joseph -- There is a moment in each day that Satan cannot find. (William Blake) I saw this quote the other day. My mind searched for a specific time or moment to label as "Satan free." Was it in...
· 13 July 2007 | 206 words
From the movie, Red Planet: Chantilas: [Suppose] we just finished poisoning the earth and everyone was dead in a hundred years. Then what was the point of anything? Art, beauty--all gone--the Greeks, the Constitution, people dying for freedom, ideas. None...
· 2 July 2007 | 579 words
I'm on page 148 of Paul Tillich's The Courage to Be. He has painstakingly described three types of anxiety that are part of being human (ontologically speaking). There is the anxiety of fate and death, of which the western ancients...
· 2 June 2007 | 202 words
My deepest desire and most longing want is to see the face of Jesus Christ. Based on one of the Beatitudes, my daily prayer is for God to purify my heart so that I may see Him, see Him in...
· 24 May 2007 | 245 words
As one has to learn to read or to practice a trade, so one must learn to feel in all things, first and almost solely, the obedience of the universe to God. It is really an apprenticeship. Like every...
· 9 May 2007 | 175 words
Inspired to react to a Frederick Franck quote, I wrote this. While watching the six o'clock news, I am forced to face the poverty of my spirit. I am powerless. I am impotent. I am not in control. There is...
· 2 May 2007 | 370 words
I was in the middle of the first part of a three-step prayer yesterday evening when my whinny little four-year suddenly bursted into my room and demanded he needed a fresh pair socks at that very moment so he could...
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us