This is a post that I had planned to have up yesterday, but I reconsidered. It’s not the kind of thing that you put up on April 1st and expect to be taken as seriously as you intend it. As I was sitting in the Easter Vigil on Saturday night, I heard for only the …
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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. …
Paschal Mystery
One of my favourite tags on this blog is changing sadness into joy. It’s always too easy to think that Christianity is about these rules and this patience and this detachment and these sufferings and these commands – and to stop there. But while all of those things find their place in Christianity, they find their …
Easter Day 1946
During his novitiate year with the Redemptorists in Hanoi, Marcel Văn, under obedience to his spiritual director, wrote down his Conversations with Jesus. On Easter Day 1946, there are some gems! It’s almost as if this is an Easter present to us all, any year and many years later. I’m going to simply bring up some of …
What is the Difference Between Meditation and Contemplation? (In the Easter Vigil)
In the Easter Vigil, we always have a reading about the Creation of the world (Gen 1:1–2:2). God made light, made a dome in the sky, gathered the waters, made several lights in the sky of day and night, made creatures in the waters and in the dome of the sky, brought forth living creatures …
Why the Church Sings, “Felix Culpa!”
Humanity, after the fall, is much more fortunate than before, for through Jesus Christ, it acquired rights to all that is of God. All is at humanity’s disposal. It suffices to want it. That is why the Church sings, “O happy fault of Adam!” Saint Clement Hofbauer
ปัสกา (Pascha, Easter)
JOY ^^ =)
Contemplative in the Mud 