January 2012
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December 2011
1 post
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Thoughts in Solitude - Thomas Merton
MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will...
November 2011
8 posts
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St. Brendan - Irish Contemplative
Lord, I will trust you. Help me to journey beyond the familiar And into the unknown Give me the faith to leave old ways And Break fresh ground with you
Christ of the mysteries, I trust You To be stronger than each storm within me. I will trust in the darkness and know That my times, even now, are in Your hand.
Tune my spirit to the music of heaven, And somehow, make my obedience count for You.
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Lunch Conversation
Brother: You like Justin Bieber, Dad?
Dad: No, she's a teenybopper.
October 2011
10 posts
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Self Compassion
When you truly come to have authentic self compassion, you are ready to forgive and forget. You feel love towards others because you understand them. And you understand others because you have understood yourself. You have looked deeply inside and seen self illusion and your own human failings. You have seen your own humanity and learned to forgive and to love. When you have learned...
The secret of a full and abundant life is instead to join forces with the flow of God’s love in the world, and to take up one’s life as a coworker in God’s ministry of healing. Finding and owning the love – the passion – that gives our lives meaning is to set out on a journey in which we find and foster deeper and more healthy connections with ourselves, others, creation, and God. Then we are...
September 2011
11 posts
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August 2011
3 posts
WatchToxel: Clock Tower Apartment, NYC
The Heart of the Caregiver
Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to...
July 2011
8 posts
June 2011
7 posts
Keeping Faith Fresh
“When the Gospel is preached and accepted on a larger scale, it had historically received wide acceptance and made a dramatic impact. Then, what was at first an electrifying message becomes a familiar religious system. How can the freshness of selfless and costly trust in the living God be kept alive and passed on to the next generation? Particularly after decades or centuries of gospel...
May 2011
10 posts
