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July 2014

July 30, 2014
Karl Rahner, one of the most renowned Christian theologians of the twentieth century, once famously...
July 30, 2014
"Love for Jesus is fed by constant meditation on the Gospels." — Michael Casey, OCSO...
July 29, 2014
Today is the feast day of one of the lesser known of Cistercian blesseds (and...
July 27, 2014
Jesus, following the law of his people, instructed his followers to "love your neighbor as yourself."...
July 16, 2014
“Prologue 9”? What does that mean, pray tell? It’s an allusion to the Rule of...
July 04, 2014
Recently I have read two wonderful books that offer a glimpse into the life of...

June 2014

June 01, 2014
I've been re-reading Thomas Merton's The Waters of Siloe for a class I'm teaching at the...

May 2014

May 19, 2014
Today is my stepdaughter Rhiannon's 29th birthday. It's always a sweet day, but today is...
May 10, 2014
Beautiful God, Blessed Trinity, I thank you for the gift of this new day. O...

April 2014

April 16, 2014
Talk about a trip down memory lane. Richard Cole's Catholic By Choice: Why I Embraced...

March 2014

March 31, 2014
Blessed are the peacemakers, and today I want to celebrate two such persons in particular....
March 20, 2014
It's been almost three years now since the release of Richard Rohr's Falling Upward: A...
March 14, 2014
In its very last paragraph, Norris J. Chumley describes Be Still and Know, his new...
March 04, 2014
This morning I was reading St. John of the Cross, and came across this passage....

February 2014

February 18, 2014
Contemplative spirituality is a spirituality in which, in the words of Richard Rohr, "everything belongs."...
February 03, 2014
Contemplative prayer — the prayer of sitting in silence, waiting in faith and trust on...

January 2014

January 22, 2014
Are you looking for a book or two to read, on the topics of contemplation...
January 09, 2014
Rest in peace, Father Luke Kot. Father Luke died tonight, at the age of 102....

December 2013

December 20, 2013
Okay, I'm loving The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander so much that I have to give...
December 18, 2013
This is the second of a series of Advent reflections. To read the first part,...
December 16, 2013
My Advent reading for this year is The Reed of God by Caryll Houselander. A twentieth...
December 11, 2013
Recently I spoke at a church located about an hour north of where I live....
December 10, 2013
One of the pitfalls of contemplative practice is that we can easily get stuck in...
December 05, 2013
Julian of Norwich's Showings shines with luminous mystical wisdom. If there is one mystic I...
December 04, 2013
True confession time: I'm a clutter bug. I always have been, with books, CDs, and...

October 2013

October 22, 2013
I picked up a copy of an old book called The Laughter of God: At Ease...
October 18, 2013
The other day when several folks gathered at a church in Atlanta to participate in...
October 10, 2013
I'm not sure why the fall of 2013 belongs to Julian of Norwich (except to...
October 08, 2013
In September and October 2013 I wrote a series of blog posts called "Why Contemplation...
October 04, 2013
In September and October 2013 I wrote a series of blog posts called "Why Contemplation...
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