The quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) this past week moved from the feats day of Catherine of Siena to the singularity of the demand of God, for our love which is shown in being loved (and showing the same love for his other children). No one saw more clearly the miseries and …
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Exigencies of Contemplative Love for Creation and People (Quotes Vol. 38)
This past week, in the quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) I continued on the theme of Christian eco-spirituality for Earth Month, and I honoured Jacques Maritain, one of the biggest influences on me and on this blog, who died 51 years ago today: As a spiritual work of mercy, care for our …
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Contemplating the Beauty of Nature and Transfigured Human Nature (Quotes Vol. 37)
This past week, all the quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) spoke of a Christian eco-spirituality for Earth Month, including a connection noted by Benedict XVI between contemplating nature and contemplating Christianized human nature: My soul, while enjoying the beauties of nature, was also tasting the sweetness of spiritual joys. — Marcel Văn …
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Contemplation and Action in Earth Month (Quotes Vol. 36)
This past week, all the quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) all spoke of the Christian eco-spirituality for Earth Month, starting with a quote about the Annunciation (celebrated on Monday past) and continuing on to the connection between virtue and social justice with contemplation, as well as the virtues of moderation and contemplative …
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Contemplation with Christ at the Start of Earth Month (Quotes Vol. 35)
This past week, all the quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) spoke of the Christian (i.e., Christic) character of contemplation, as well as transitioned into Earth Month, with a special focus on the silence of nature: There is no prayer, no contemplation, unless Christ be in the soul, and unless an imitation of …
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Holy Week and Easter (Quotes Vol. 34)
This past week, all the quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) spoke of the time we are in: Holy Week and Easter. Contemplation is paradise on earth, a crucified paradise. — Jacques Maritain Contemplation is not anesthesia, imperturbability, deliverance from all that might agitate a person, an ascent to the Sea of Tranquility. …
To Become the One God Made You to Be (Quotes Vol. 33)
In this fifth week of Lent, quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) followed up on the last quote of the previous week. The focus is the work that the dark night, contemplation, and our relationship with God in general accomplish: making us the one God created us to be, nothing less, nothing different, …
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God Does the Work and We Contemplate Him in this World (Quotes Vol. 32)
In this fourth week of Lent, quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) focused in one what contemplation is, how God is working in us to bring it about, and where we can find it. The elevator which must raise me to the heavens is Your arms, O Jesus! For that I do not …
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Between Natural Beauty and Supernatural Suffering (Quotes Vol. 31)
In this third week of Lent, quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) continued the duality of a Laudato Si’ Lent and a Lent of the way of the Cross. To love sufferings and afflictions for the love of God is the highest degree of holy charity. — Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange Contemplation, which leads us …
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From Niagara Falls to Golgotha (Quotes Vol. 30)
In this second week of Lent, quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) moved from a Laudato Si’ Lent, i.e., contemplation of God the Creator, to a Lent of mortification, i.e., the experience of the Cross. I am going back again to the water which pours itself out before me. It is also an …
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Contemplative in the Mud 