Cenacle Journal
Posted in Contemplation, Immersed in God, Union with God on Jul 21st, 2011
I’d like to share a lovely passage from an essay with a rather formidable title: “Trinitarian Theology as Participation,” by Frans Jozef van Beeck, SJ. Father van Beeck feels that the reason many Christians leave the church today is that they are simply bored. They do not find there a “sense of participation in God, [...]
Posted in Emptiness, Emptying, Giving All, Suffering, Union with God on Nov 21st, 2009
The only thing to be done now, now that the waves of our undoing have begun to strike on us, is to contain ourselves. To keep still, and let the wreckage of ourselves go, let everything go, as the wave smashes us, yet keep still, and hold the tiny grain of something that no wave [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Union with God on Feb 20th, 2007
One day a number of years ago, I fell asleep during my prayer. As I was sleeping, I heard a voice. Now wait… I want to be very clear that I don’t “hear voices” or see visions or anything extraordinary like that. I knew this was a dream voice. It spoke only two words: “Enoch [...]
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 [...]
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