From the Prayer of Saint Francis – Apr. 7, 2020
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seekTo be consoled as to console,To be understood as to understand,To be loved as to love;For it is in giving that we receive;It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life. –St. Francis of […]
Christ Consciousness – Mar. 13, 2020
“Contemplative practice… is fundamentally about a change in consciousness that enables the practitioner to see and participate in the very nature of Christ. It is a bold way of saying “yes” to the profound invitation of Ephesians 3:18-19… that rooted and grounded in love [you] may come to grasp how wide and long and high […]
Transformative Love – Mar. 12, 2020
“The most daring gamble of Jesus’ trajectory of pure love may just be to show us that self-emptying is not the means to something else; the act is itself the full expression of its meaning and instantly brings into being “a new creation”: the integral wholeness of Love manifested in the particularity of a human […]
Fresh Meaning – Feb. 7, 2020
Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning– We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love. –Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, opening dedication for Owen Chopoksa Sapulpa