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 All Shall Be Well, Christmas, In God's Hand on Feb 9th, 2009
(This is a second reflection on the topic of stumbling into the Reign of God.)
Two years ago, with the help of Sister Elizabeth, the county housing authority, and a number of generous people, Carol — the mentally ill homeless woman about whom I have written before — finally moved into her own apartment. One day [...]
Posted in Acceptance, Christmas, Grace on Dec 23rd, 2008
The poet U. A. Fanthorpe pictures the shepherds and the Magi – those familiar visitors to the infant Jesus – walking “haphazard by starlight straight/Into the kingdom of heaven”:
This was the moment when Before
Turned into After, and the future’s
Uninvented timekeepers presented arms.
This was the moment when nothing
Happened. Only dull peace
Sprawled boringly over the earth.
This was [...]
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