Weekly Word
It’s been a hard year for many, a careful year for most, an unpredictable year for all of us–and, at the same time, a clearly holy year for all those of you who, despite your own financial losses a
The very scandal of Christianity lies in the fact that it sees divinity in humanity. It’s a hard idea to swallow, after all.
The function of Advent is to remind us what we’re waiting for as we go through life too busy with things that do not matter to remember the things that do.
Thomas Merton, Trappist, died December 10, 1968
I have a parrot who does not sing. She cries a lot if I leave the room—if anybody leaves the room actually.
“I learn by going where I have to go,” Theodore Roethke wrote. And that’s an important concept. All of life cannot be planned. Our life is God’s and gratitude is its key.
There comes a time when criticism of the past is simply not enough. There comes a new moment in life when we must dedicate ourselves to creating the future. And that is hard, hard work.
The direction we take at this new crossroad in time will not simply affect the future of the United States. It will determine the history of the world.
Give us, O God,
leaders whose hearts are large enough
to match the breadth of our own souls
and give us souls strong enough
to follow leaders of vision and wisdom.
The problem of the nature of faith plagues us all our lives. Is openness to other ideas infidelity, or is it the beginning of spiritual maturity?
Confucius may have said it best: “Everything has beauty,” he taught, “but not everyone sees it.” Seeing it, the spiritual person knows, is the task of a lifetime.
Patience and care are two pillars of Benedictine community. They hold up before our eyes, in blinding light, in immovable form, what is to be the nature of our presence in the world.
It is necessary for all of us, at all times, to understand that female and feminist are not the same things.
Once upon a time, an ancient story tells, the main tributary of a mountain stream became polluted.
Give us, O God,
leaders whose hearts are large enough
to match the breadth of our own souls
and give us souls strong enough
to follow leaders of vision and wisdom.