Cenacle Journal
Posted in Cenacle, Mary, Prayer, Transformation on May 3rd, 2008
REFLECTIONS ON THE FEAST OF THE CENACLE [The following was presented as a talk at Saint Augustine Parish in Gainesville, Florida. For an abbreviated version, see "Waiting in the Cenacle."] Printer-friendly version After the Ascension and before Pentecost, there is another mystery worthy of honor, but which most of us just pass right over on [...]
Before we moved into this house several years ago, the former owner warned us that there would be a lot of trick-or-treaters. In fact, “a lot” turned out to be an understatement, since the first year we counted almost two hundred. As the evening wore on we were scrambling about the pantry. searching for any [...]
When they had entered [Jerusalem], they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James. All these with one accord devoted themselves to prayer, together with [...]
Although the first of November is the feast of All Saints, followed by All Souls on November 2, the whole month of November is traditionally a time for special remembrance of our loved ones who have died. With this in mind, I have been reflecting on an experience of Saint Therese Couderc — the Cenacle’s [...]
Saint Therese Couderc, the co-founder of the Sisters of the Cenacle, had a vision of goodness one day during her prayer. She wrote about it in a letter dated August 10, 1866 : I saw written as in letters of gold this word Goodness, which I repeated for a long while with an indescribable sweetness. [...]
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