Cenacle Journal
Posted in Contemplation, Immersed in God, Union with God on Jul 21st, 2011
I’d like to share a lovely passage from an essay with a rather formidable title: “Trinitarian Theology as Participation,” by Frans Jozef van Beeck, SJ. Father van Beeck feels that the reason many Christians leave the church today is that they are simply bored. They do not find there a “sense of participation in God, [...]
Posted in Contemplation, Gratitude, Mystery on Oct 10th, 2007
Sometimes I feel like a spiritual beachcomber. This is not necessarily bad, it seems to me, because small gems are there for the finding, if the heart’s eyes are open. On my bookcase sit the following treasures picked up during a walk along the beach not far from our Cenacle in Lantana, Florida: a piece [...]
Posted in Contemplation, Transformation on Apr 15th, 2005
I have an old nightgown which is something like the Wonderful One-Hoss Shay. It (the gown) was purchased about 15 years ago — a prim, sisterly kind of night attire, 100% cotton, full-length, with short sleeves and a high neck. It is still, in a new millennium, cotton, full-length, with short sleeves and a high [...]
Posted in Contemplation, Mindfulness, Mystery on Apr 7th, 2005
Small mysteries abound. First, the escalator at Macy’s wasn’t working last week, so along with the other customers, I was walking down. Standing on the bottom step — as some sort of safety measure, I suppose — was a woman, an employee of the store. Between her feet was a shoe, so that she looked [...]
Posted in Beauty, Contemplation, Creation on Feb 26th, 2005
One day while I was still living in Louisiana, I went out for my evening walk with the expectation of seeing nothing new — except perhaps larger cracks in the levee from the oppressive heat and drought. However, walking along the lake, I stopped at one spot to approach the water, and to my surprise [...]
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