Living in God’s Kingdom – Nov. 10, 2022
“When Merton told me that “one thing for sure about heaven is that there is not going to be much of you there,” he was, I think, referring to the mystery that even now we are in God’s kingdom. And that even now we can begin to realize it if we but die to egocentric […]
Mystery of Hope – Sept. 28, 2022
“Vaclav Havel, former president of Czechoslovakia, put it this way: “Hope is an orientation of the heart… The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is… [Without hope] it is impossible to live in dignity and meaning much less find the will for the ‘hopeless enterprise’ which stands at […]
Not Seeing – May 31, 2022
“Not seeing the mountain, being frustrated in one’s quest, can be far more riveting to the imagination than succeeding in beholding what one sought… In Ku His’s classical pattern of Chinese landscape art, the subtle appeal of mountains is rooted in the artist’s skillful craft of omission; the peaks are half-dissolved in clouds. This is […]
Living Each Day
The confluence of the turning of earth’s seasons, the occasion of my birthday, and the nearing transition of the Church’s liturgical cycle from Ordinary Time to Advent, has me pondering my days. My reflectiveness is also influenced by the uncertainty that continues with the COVID-19 pandemic and alarming reports on climate change. Sunday’s gospel* also […]
