Cenacle Journal
Posted in Love on Jun 18th, 2008
When I typed “What does love mean?” into Google, in quotes so that I would get the exact phrase, no less than 111,000 web pages came up. (I imagine the numbers change from day to day—even hour to hour, as I just tried it again and this time there were 112,000.) Although I certainly didn’t [...]
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 Love on Mar 24th, 2007
I went outside the other day to uncover the plants after the latest freeze. In case you don’t know, when a drastic dip in the temperature is predicted, residents of the deep South are warned about protecting the four p’s. That means people, pets, plants, and pipes. Protecting plants usually involves running out the night [...]
I’ve just downloaded from iTunes a recording of Marilyn Horne singing the Lord’s Prayer. Listening to it is enough to send shivers down your spine, and its beauty bears witness to what St. Augustine said: cantare amantis est — singing belongs to the lover. My mother also liked to sing, but was not what you [...]
Posted in Love on Jun 28th, 2005
When the doorbell rang, I opened it to a man and a young woman (a student, it turned out), dressed in the uniform of the Forest Service. “We’d like to measure your trees,” the man said. He was talking about the two huge live oaks in the front yard — actually sand live oaks, as [...]
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