Christian contemplation thrown into the muddy highways of the world : encouragement : experiences : resources
Blessed John Soreth was a Carmelite of the fifteenth century who wrote an important commentary on the rule of that order. In it, he gives what I think is a good synthesis of a lot of pre-modern thought on Christian contemplation. I owe my knowledge of this summary to Saint Titus Brandsma: This treatment of …
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On social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X) this past week, the quotes are not exactly from the usual suspects (though they are not unusual around here either), and after an initial exhortation for last week’s Sunday of the Word of God, the overall focus is the efficacy of contemplation for our active life: Every little word Christ …
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I’ve mentioned before that I often make use of the Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century (a mouthful of a title for a book if ever there were one). What I haven’t said is that part of the reason I buckled down and purchased it was the foreword it boasts by Pope Francis. Now, …
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First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2021). In Canada, today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, originally and still colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day. It’s a day to particularly remember indigenous children and youth who suffered through, or sometimes didn’t survive, residential schools. …
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For the theologian, just as much as for the contemplative, Scripture, more than being just a source, must become the sea in which all life’s rivers lose themselves. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
Contemplative in the Mud 