Posted in Books, Catholic, Christian, Life, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Thomas Merton, Writing on May 25, 2008 | No Comments »
At Mass today, on this feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ I was reminded of something I read last fall:
Only a repeated miracle of God from minute to minute keeps me from falling into hell. I am made out of earth and ashes and spittle and a little mud. I don’t [...]
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Life, News, News and Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion and Spirituality on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the United States on April 15. Since then he has been reaching out - to the Catholic faithful, to Catholic youth, to the victims of clergy sex abuse, to our Jewish brothers and sisters, and to the world. On the whole, I have to say I have been very pleased [...]
Posted in Books, Catholic, Christian, Life, News, News and Politics, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Writing on April 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For the last couple of weeks I have been reading Ken Follett’s “The Pillars of the Earth.” (Note: I was reading it before I had any idea it was enjoying a resurgence - heaven forbid I should actually do something because it’s popular.) I enjoyed it well enough, though at the end it seemed to [...]
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Life, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Thomas Merton, Writing on February 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The only essential is not an idea or an ideal: it is God Himself, Who cannot be found by weighing the present against the future or the past, but only by sinking into the heart of the present as it is. - Thomas Merton
From Entering the Silence: The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 2 (1941-1952), [...]
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Health and Wellness, Life, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Wellness on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Make a habit, break a habit. That’s what I said a couple weeks before New Year’s. Having any luck?
With me it’s pretty much same ol’, same ol’, y’know.
I’ve been a little more conscious of the stress level in my life, and trying not to do things that add to it. Honestly, though, I’m not [...]
Posted in Books, Catholic, Christian, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Writing on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Working my way through the works of Thomas Merton more or less consistently over the last several years, I found myself wondering what he sounded like. I knew there was a collection of audio tapes at the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University, but there was nothing I could find on the Internet. Last fall [...]
Posted in Books, Catholic, Entertainment, Health and Wellness, Hobbies, Life, Motorcycles, Music, Photography, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Wellness, Writing on January 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
In my previous post I intended to talk a little more about the sometimes jarring experience of returning to work after an extended vacation. Whether two weeks constitutes an “extended vacation” is, of course, debatable, but let’s just stipulate to that, okay?
During vacation I was able to do more of the things that make me [...]
Posted in Catholic, Christian, Life, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality on January 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Today we celebrate the Epiphany, the manifestation of our Lord in the adoration of the Magi. It is the twelfth day of Christmas; for many, the end of the Christmas season (though, for others, it ended December 26th). Some celebrate today with the exchange of gifts, rather than the day on which Christ’s birth is [...]
Posted in Books, Catholic, Health and Wellness, Life, Religion, Religion and Spirituality, Spirituality, Thomas Merton, Wellness on October 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been working my way through the journals of Thomas Merton lately. Several years ago I read Merton’s autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, after stumbling into it completely by accident. His style of writing, and thinking, struck a chord and I have been reading his work ever since.
Having read several of his books now, but [...]
