I am on monastic retreat until the weekend, and have scheduled two reposts each day of pieces that some may not have read before. Comments will be off until I return. You might like peeking into last year’s Online Retreat * * * Originally published April 2009 – “NOT BELIEVING IS EVEN WORSE” So, yesterday I was off in Brooklyn again, for another coupla episodes of In the Arena, and as usual the good folks at NET had arranged a... Read more
I am on monastic retreat until the weekend, and have scheduled two reposts each day of pieces that some may not have read before. Comments will be off until I return. You might like peeking into last year’s Online Retreat * * * Originally posted, April 2009: GRACE, THE BAGGAGE HANDLER I love this simple definition of grace from Dom Augustin Guillerand, O. Cart, a French Carthusian. This is the secret of peace, after committing a fault. What is past... Read more
I am on monastic retreat until the weekend, and have scheduled two reposts each day of pieces that some may not have read before. Comments will be off until I return. You might like peeking into last year’s Online Retreat * * * This was originally part of that online retreat, one of my 3PM “Wonder” hours. As this retreat is roughly following the Hours of the Divine Office (very roughly) we’re seeing posts at 9AM, the Noon, 3PM, 6PM... Read more
I am on monastic retreat until the weekend, and have scheduled two reposts each day of pieces that some may not have read before. Comments will be off until I return. You might like peeking into last year’s Online Retreat * * * Originally from April, 2009 So, basically the last four days have been dedicated to family, and the weather was terrific and I paid zero attention to the news. I highly recommend taking a few days off from... Read more
I am on monastic retreat until the weekend, and have scheduled two reposts each day of pieces that some may not have read before. Comments will be off until I return. You might like peeking into last year’s Online Retreat * * * Originally Posted March 2008, MY SOUL FOR A CUP OF COFFEE! After four days in the house, sleeping nearly continuously thanks to my oxygen-deprived and bleary state, I desperately needed to get out of the house today,... Read more
I am on monastic retreat until the weekend, and have scheduled two reposts each day of pieces that some may not have read before. Comments will be off until I return. You might like peeking into last year’s Online Retreat * * * Originally posted in December of 2007, and rather poignant, given the tenor of the times. So, I had a doctor’s appointment this morning – or I thought I did. I made it to the 11AM appointment to... Read more
I will be on monastic retreat and out of e-range until August 16, but please check back, as I have scheduled two reposts, each day, of some “oldies but goodies” you may not have seen. Comments will be turned off until I return, and if you email me, well…I’ll try to get back to you in as timely a manner as I can! Meanwhile, if you could please pray for me as I take a scary drive (I hate driving... Read more
We are coming up to that time of the year when a small-but-growing number of young men and young women (and the not-so-young as well) hug their weeping family members and then step away joyfully into another world, one where the family may not follow, to try their vocations as Diocesan priests or as Benedictines, Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites and more; to explore a radical path of prayer and service onto which they believe they are being called. It is a... Read more
We’re behind on our reading around here and came across this very interesting piece in Wired Magazine about an erection of engraved monoliths, raised in northeastern Georgia: Built to survive the apocalypse, the Georgia Guidestones are not merely instructions for the future—the massive granite slabs also function as a clock, calendar, and compass. . . .the monument is a mystery—nobody knows exactly who commissioned it or why. The only clues to its origin are on a nearby plaque on the... Read more
There is offensive language on this video, so if that bothers you, you are warned. To my way of thinking the physical violence is more offensive: Source: The indispensable Hot Air The day after the attack on a fellow selling buttons and “Don’t Tread on Me” flags (and which immediately preceded this event), Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius held a conference call to the SEIU, during which she greeted her union “brothers and sisters” and said “keep doing what you’re doing!”... Read more
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