Cenacle Journal
Posted in Turned Toward God, Union with God on Sep 25th, 2007
On the way home from giving a day of prayer in Jacksonville, Sister Elizabeth and I pass a church. A sign outside exhorts: Get away from yourself. Come to church. “Why would I want to get away from myself?” I think. “I’m the only self I have.” Then I remember what Huston Smith says about [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Glory, Heaven, Union with God on May 25th, 2005
I have just finished reading Marilynne Robinson’s remarkable novel, Gilead, which recently won the Pulitzer prize. Very near the end of the book the narrator, an elderly preacher composing a long letter for his young son to read after his death, writes: I love the prairie! So often I have seen the dawn come and [...]
Posted in Cenacle, God Among Us, Gratitude on Feb 26th, 2005
[This was written in 2000, shortly after our arrival in Gainesville.] The Cenacle is making its small beginnings in Gainesville. Two of us arrived a couple of weeks ago, and two others will come the end of August. For now we are engaged in the ministry of pots and pans, of mop and broom, instead [...]
Posted in Cenacle, Holiness, Prayer, Religious life, Turned Toward God on Feb 18th, 2005
This year is the bicentennial of the birth of Saint Therese Couderc, co-founder of the Cenacle Sisters. My group (five of us) entered the pre-novitiate on February 1, the birthday of the saint we call Mother Therese, but about whom I knew precious little then. Oh, I had read a romantically pious biography of her, [...]
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