Cenacle Journal
Posted in Eucharist, Giving All, Joy, Prayer, Prayers on Aug 16th, 2010
“Anima Christi” -3 (1. Soul of Christ, sanctify me.) (2. Body of Christ, save me.) – – – – – Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Sanguis Christi, inebria me. We remember gruesomely colored crucifixes, or the blood dripping from Jim Caviezel’s face in Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Passion of the Christ.” But this petition draws [...]
Posted in Emptiness, Emptying, Giving All, Suffering, Union with God on Nov 21st, 2009
The only thing to be done now, now that the waves of our undoing have begun to strike on us, is to contain ourselves. To keep still, and let the wreckage of ourselves go, let everything go, as the wave smashes us, yet keep still, and hold the tiny grain of something that no wave [...]
Posted in Giving All, Religious life on Jan 11th, 2009
Printer-friendly During the sexual abuse crisis, the retired archbishop of San Francisco, Most Rev. John R. Quinn, wrote: “I believe, in fact, that this is the best time in the history of the church to be a priest, because it is a time when there can be only one reason for being a priest or [...]
Posted in Giving All, In God's Hand, Transformation on Sep 1st, 2008
Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, ‘Let me go, for the day is breaking.’ But [...]
Posted in Giving All, Longing, Desire on May 14th, 2005
As frequently happens, yesterday I found something for which I’d been futilely searching only while looking for an entirely different item. It was a clipping I had cut out of the paper years ago, containing a quotation from Van Cliburn on what is necessary for a career as a pianist. “I think,” he said, “the [...]
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