Tuesday of Holy Week
Today's Life-Line:
How do we live by faith, in love, with hope, in the face of the incompatibility of the luminous mystery and the sorrowful mystery of human existence?
How do we live responsibly while fully Read more [...]
I've been working on a chapter this week -- "Being the Beloved" -- which is based on a talk I've been giving for years. So I have been rereading favorite sections from my favorite book of Thomas Merton: New Seeds of Contemplation. The excerpt below Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line(s) are:
Only when redemption in Christ is understood as historical, as an affirmation of God's original intention for creation, rather than a rejection of creation, will it become possible to see the New Testament theme of equality Read more [...]
Oscar Romero was the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador. He served from February 1977 until March of 1980 when he was assassinated. A studious, humble, and conservative priest, Romero had disappointed the ruling oligarchy of El Salvador by Read more [...]
Christ within me, Christ beside me,
Christ behind me, Christ to guide me.
Christ above me, Christ beneath me,
Christ in eyes of all who greet me
Christ in rising, Christ in sleeping,
Christ in silence, Christ in speaking.
Christ in safety, Read more [...]
Ash Wednesday
Receive this cross of ash upon your brow
Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross;
The forests of the world are burning now
And you make late repentance for the loss.
But all the trees of God would clap their hands,
The Read more [...]
Brother Weeps taught, "Before we can see Christ in the other, as St. Benedict and various sages through the ages have encouraged, we need to learn to see the other. To see the other as Christ sees them. And when we are able to see the person, truly see Read more [...]
Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited.
But because he cannot be at home in it,
because he is out of place in it,
and yet he must be in it,
His place is with the others Read more [...]