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My writing
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I am always amazed by what we, Christians, never talk about. But it is even deeper: not only do we not talk about certain things, it’s as though we don’t even have a language to discuss them. And because of our innate tendencies to take control of things, we even steer away from what is right in front of us. Take for instance, the first thing we learn about God. In Genesis, at the very beginning of the Bible, we learn that God takes his time. Six days. Six God days. To my mind, that [...]
Thomas Merton poetry
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Song for Our Lady of Cobre The white girls lift their heads like trees, The black girls go Reflected like flamingoes in the street. The white girls sing as shrill as water, The black girls talk as quiet as clay. The white girls open their arms like clouds, The black girls close their eyes like wings: Angels bow down like bells, Angels look up like toys, Because the heavenly stars Stand in a ring: And all the pieces of the mosaic, earth, Get up [...]
Evelyn Underhill
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From Worship Since the Christian revelation is in its very nature historical – God coming the whole way to man, and discovered and adored within the arena of man’s life at one point in time, in and through the humanity of Christ – it follows that all the historical events and conditions of Christ’s life form part of the vehicle of revelation. Each of them mediates God, disclosing some divine truth or aspect of divine love to us. Here lies the importance of the Christian [...]
Mysticism
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From The Mystical Way in Everyday Life What is mysticism and what is the love of all things in the world (“Weltfreudigkeit”) and to what degree are they both present in Ignatius of Loyola, so that one can speak of an Ignatian mysticism that loves all things in the world? These are apparently the questions raised by the title of this meditation, and it may well appear as if the question is aimed at something that is not only hidden in the dark but contains a contradiction in terms. For [...]
The Value of Sparrows 