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. …
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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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Contemplate Nature, Contemplate God’s People (Quotes Vol. 29)
In this first week of Lent, quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) stick to a pattern: God invites us to contemplate him in gratitude as the Creator of creation, as well as in the people we meet. In fact, these are connected. I spoke to him in all simplicity, of the river when …
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Walking into the Desert to Find God’s Beauty (Quotes Vol. 28)
As we entered Lent this week, I shifted quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) to reflect the theme, which, around here, will include but not be limited to a Laudato Si’ Lent: Made holy by the Holy Spirit, we receive Christ as one who lives in our inmost selves, and with Christ we …
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Grain of Sand in the Desert
The Little Flower spokeOf being like a grain of sandSmall, almost insignificant, wornAnd maybe tooWe can go to where silence is bornIn the desert, with Jesus, God-Man,Keep him company, a little grain of friendshipChattering in the breezeIn the desert these forty days.
What Will Our Lent be Dedicated to?
I asked the good Jesus that we may partake of Lent as and with him: these forty days in the desert, given by him solely to contemplation. What could be the activity of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in his most holy soul, in this human rest, in this solitude? Our Lent will not …
A Moment and Forty Years
It’s Lent. Many of us, if not most of us, reading this blog are doing some sort of penitential acts to better grow in Christian virtue during this season. As we anticipate Easter and the celebration of the glory of the Resurrection, we better train ourselves in this spiritual “competition” which is life (cf. 1 …
What to do for Lent?
I have often struggled with the question: “What should I do for Lent?” The road that I’m most likely to take each year is to refrain from reading new books (that is, books that I have not read before) for the duration of Lent. For me, this is a considerable mortification, since I love to read; …
No… For Lent
No… For Lent, do not do anything to yourself that will likely bring you an increase of fatigue or a decrease in resistance. You are already living at the limit of what you can take, and you must not add to it. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
Contemplative in the Mud 