Destiny Calling – Sept. 10, 2018
This week, the homily focus is pilgrimage—an intentional journey of discovery and change. Quotes for the following week come from Philip Cousineau’s book, The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seekers’ Guide to Making Travel Sacred (San Francisco: Conari Press, 1998). “Ask yourself what is absurd in your life right now. Then recall that the roots of […]
Merciful Eyes – Sept. 7, 2018
“It is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.” –The Cloud of Unknowing
What is Loving? – Sept. 6, 2018
“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self – to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.” -Barbara Brown […]
Spotting My False Self – Sept. 5, 2018
“I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.” -Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life