· 22 March 2008 | 324 words
My heart is a little giddy with excitement and anticipation for tonight's Easter Vigil Mass. It is my favorite Mass of the whole year, with Christmas Midnight Mass a close second. It has been a long and dark Lent for...
· 28 September 2007 | 616 words
Some quotations from Crisis of Faith, Crisis of Love by Thomas Keating that have been lanterns of hope along the path through the valley... The absence of the felt presence of The Lord is his normal means of increasing our...
· 5 September 2007 | 156 words
I feel like a fraud, a fake. I want to pray, but I don't want to. My words are so shallow, empty, nothing. I am shallow, empty, nothing. My thoughts are divergent, flittering between this and that, ...
· 3 September 2007 | 651 words
I ventured out of my blog hermitage yesterday afternoon to find much discussion on the spiritual suffering of the Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa). It reminded me of something I had written awhile ago. The words are mine but...
· 1 September 2007 | 637 words
I don't remember where I read it, but this one line has been stuck in my mind for the last few weeks. It was something along the lines of "gorging on emotions." The idea of feeding upon my emotions is...
· 24 May 2007 | 433 words
The felt the big emptiness this morning. It actually started yesterday afternoon, but I did not notice or label it as such until this morning. It is not depression. I know depression. It's close, but not the same. There is...
· 14 May 2007 | 435 words
I'm bad about shopping for books. I cannot stop in a bookstore without rummaging through the religion/faith section. If a book looks good, I'll purchase it in hopes of reading it some day. Sometimes, I'll start the new book the...
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us