We survived Tropical Storm Fay with only the loss of telephone service for a few days and of one computer during a thunderstorm in Fay’s wake. Now the season is heating up, as Gustav appears to be heading for the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. It seems fitting to print again this prayer, by Maurice Schexnayder [...]
Category Archive for 'Mary'
Mary Undoer of Knots
Posted in Mary on Jun 11th, 2008
When I was small, I had a cross that hung on a very fine gold chain. The chain often managed to twist itself into a little knotted mess in my drawer which my mother or father had to undo painstakingly with a straight pen. My long hair also ended up in tangles, and I would [...]
Nurturing the Mystical Body
Posted in Cenacle, Eucharist, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Act of Oblation
Posted in Cenacle, Cross, Forgiveness, Love, Mary on Mar 26th, 2005
ACT OF OBLATION Lord Jesus, I unite myself to your perpetual, unceasing, universal sacrifice. I offer myself to you every day of my life and every moment of every day, according to your most holy and adorable will. You have been the victim of my salvation, I wish to be the victim of your love. [...]