One May 6th in heaven, Anno was talking to God about his life. He recounted how it was on this day that, sitting in prison, the Lord had made known to him via the authorities that he would be sent to Dachau. And the Lord said, “Talk to me, and I will answer you and …
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John Soreth’s Three Loci of Contemplation in Perspective Today
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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Be Silent, Endure
Be silent, endure, and accept all as from God, that you may learn to know yourself thereby. Johannes Tauler OP (1300–1361)
Providence, Causes, and Humility
All existence and all good that things possess, whether they be of free will or of grace, have been given by the hand of God, who preserves it. Therefore, the soul recognizes that it is more possible to say that God is in them and works good in them than that they themselves do these …
On this Tempestuous Sea
Since your condition obliges you to roll on the tempestuous sea of this world, try never to swallow its waters, but drink rather those of Divine grace, turning in all your needs with a loving, filial trust to the Source of Mercy. Love above all else, and fear to displease, the God of sovereign goodness …
God is Not Less
When the wind blows ‘Cross the water, Turns the waves: Unsteadiness When the wind stops Ripples settle: Calmness conquers; God’s no less
Tried Friends
Lord, I now plainly see that tribulation does not proceed from Your harshness, bur rather from Your tender love. Let no one say for the future that You have forgotten Your friends. Blessed Henry Suso (1300–1366)
Reasons to Go to the Feast
I’ve written once or twice about early Muslim mystics who seem to have actually come into a love-relationship with a very Personal God. Here’s another such post. (Note that posts in this vein are not to be taken to mean that the fulness of revelation, and indeed of mystical experience, can be found outside the …
Little Cactus
Little cactus sitting still Waiting for a watering Never have you known He will Rain on you again But it really is not rain For the Master chooses it Chooses when to turn the main Drench you to the brim So this dryness is from Him You accept it and you wait But it hurts …
The Trinity with Brother Charles
As we journey deeper and deeper into God, we become more and more aware of his presence in everything that is good and in all the opportunities to turn evil things on their head, we become more and more aware of his presence in other people, and we grow in our lived experience of God …
Contemplative in the Mud 