Christian contemplation thrown into the muddy highways of the world : encouragement : experiences : resources
You’d think that, if human beings were reasonable, the way we manage our home would correspond to the account we make of how the home functions. But when it comes to our common home, this isn’t the case. Etymologically, “ecology” means words about or an account of the oikos, the home. “Economics” means the laws …
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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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The new apostolic exhortation On the Climate Crisis Laudate Deum is not a document about Christian contemplation. Yet one way to read it is as a consolidation of exactly that. All the themes of Pope Francis’ vision of Christian contemplation, in all its main forms, are represented here, and indeed they serve as the summative …
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Contemplative in the Mud 