Cenacle Journal
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 [...]
Posted in Holiness, Light, Transformation on Jun 3rd, 2006
Fashion is fickle. I went to STYLE.COM to find out what I should be anxious about this year (unlike the lilies of the field, who neither toil nor spin). I learned that my lips should be scarlet, and that it would be advisable to get a designer bag for my cell phone. What is more, [...]
Posted in Transformation, Weakness, Power on May 20th, 2005
There are bees in our chapel. We have no idea how they are getting in or how to keep them out. They don’t seem to like being there any more than we like having them with us. Some mornings the floor is littered with the little corpses of bees who have worn themselves out trying [...]
Posted in Presence, Transformation, Turned Toward God on May 14th, 2005
I am sometimes surprised by how much a simple act of kindness can touch me. When I approached Main Street the other day to make a right turn, I noticed a bicyclist at the corner, waiting to cross. He was less than respectable looking, bone thin, with a short scruffy beard and an arm covered [...]
Posted in Glory, Transformation, Weakness, Power on Apr 29th, 2005
My brother and I have been sorting through our parents’ stacks of photographs. They fill an old trunk to the brim, so we agreed on a couple of ground rules: that we would bravely discard more pictures than we would keep; and that any pictures of unidentifiable babies would be thrown out. Deep in the [...]
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