Cenacle Journal
Posted in Acceptance, Advent, In God's Hand on Dec 14th, 2011
A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” (Isaiah 40:3) What is it like when you are getting ready for someone to come? How do you prepare, say, for guests? You might clean the house and go to the grocery [...]
Posted in Advent on Dec 7th, 2011
They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah 11:9) Wisdom from Rabbi Abraham Heschel: What is history? Wars, victories, and wars. So many dead. So many tears. So little regret. So many [...]
Posted in Advent, Immersed in God, Resurrection, Transformation, Union with God on Dec 2nd, 2011
When the divine Logos became human, he necessarily took on human limitations—gender, time, place, ethnicity, nationality. The resurrected Christ, on the other hand, while remaining human, transcends the limitations that he accepted in his Incarnation. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and [...]
It was almost a week after Hurricane Frances in 2004, and Sister Elizabeth and I were coming out of the grocery store, where some of the shelves were still bare. A woman entering just as we walked out greeted us with a broad smile. “Jesus coming soon!” she said. “Have a blessed day!” With two [...]
Posted in Advent, Mindfulness, Presence on Dec 16th, 2010
A voice cries out: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. Then the glory of the Lord [...]
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