Cenacle Journal
Posted in Acceptance, Lent, Mercy on Feb 17th, 2010
By what boundless mercy, my Savior, have you allowed me to become a member of your body? Me, the unclean, the defiled, the prodigal. How is it that you have clothed me in the brilliant garment, radiant with the splendor of immortality, that turns all my members into light? Symeon the New Theologian, trans. by [...]
Posted in Glory, Lent, Mindfulness, Mystery, Resurrection, Transformation on Mar 10th, 2009
In his homily on Sunday, Father Jose Mesa pointed out that the Transfiguration of Jesus prepares us less for the Crucifixion than it does for the Resurrection. In both Matthew and Mark we read that Jesus cautions Peter, James, and John, who were witnesses to this manifestation of Jesus’ glory, not to tell anyone about [...]
“Oh, Mercy! … Wherever I turn my thoughts, I find nothing but mercy.” (St. Catherine of Siena, Dialogues 30) Dear God, Your mercy is like the air to me. I breathe mercy, I walk through mercy, I get up in the morning and go to bed at night wrapped in your mercy. While my own [...]
I have just ordered a copy of Gerald Vann’s The Pain of Christ and the Sorrow of God, a small spiritual classic published in 1947; but Amazon.com can’t promise delivery for another month or month and a half. I am eager to get hold of this little book because of a sentence that has stayed [...]
Posted in Forgiveness, Lent on Mar 4th, 2007
How Shall I Go to God? It is with our sins that we go to God, for we have nothing else to go with that we can call our own. This is one of the lessons that we are so slow to learn; yet without learning this we cannot take one right step in that [...]
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