Cenacle Journal
Posted in Mystery on Oct 29th, 2009
At our house we have one of those old analog televisions that would have stopped working by now except for the fact that we have cable. I spent some time recently, however, in a house that has high definition TV. The picture was beautiful, but I was bothered by one thing. When I turned from [...]
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 [...]
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 of shell [...]
Our roof seems to be home to an entire ecosystem. Besides the fact that we have enough grass up there to keep a goat, we get inklings of varied life-forms and mysterious goings-on that we can’t see — or see only when they spill over into our lower world.
An early visitor was the five-foot-long rat [...]
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 as [...]
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