08.22.09
“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
- Annie Dillard.
08.16.09
How to get there
“Jesus is saying there must be a clear consistency, a constant unity between our means and the ends we hope to achieve. There is no way to peace other than peacemaking itself. How you get there is always where you finally arrive.”
Adapted from Jesus’ Plan for the New World, Father Richard Rohr, p.139
Profound. Want love? Then love. Get to justice by practicing it. Achieve success by being successful…
‘Rather, the Kingdom is within you and it is outside of you.’
The Gospel of Thomas
All about food
Father Jeff Jubbard’s homily “The Dangerous Reality of Eating” nicely enriched the last two homilies Father John has delivered at St. Peter’s. I don’t understand the mystery of the Eucharist, but I need it, and it should be more important in our lives.
Simultaneously, I’ve been trying to eat less (and exercise more), and the practice of counting every calorie can get a little obsessive. The epidemic of American obesity and its related chronic conditions hits home for those of use who pay health insurance premiums and those who love people who are too heavy. So it seems like this summer has been all about food…
Perhaps we as a nation are so obsessed with food because we are not truly getting what we hunger for: Christ. Maybe we have a spiritual, soul kind of hunger that we misinterpret, or misdirect. Maybe if Americans went to church more often, and received the Sacraments more frequently (and with a less ‘casual’ attitude), we would feel full, satisfied. Maybe it’s not all about food after all.
08.15.09
The Assumption of Mary
“In an age of sensuality and materialism the Assumption points out the dignity and destiny of our human body, extols the dignity of womanhood, and turns our eyes to the true life beyond the grave. At Mass today ask Mary for the grace to keep your mind fixed on things above and to aspire continually to be united with her and to be brought to the glory of the Resurrection.”
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/calendar/day.cfm
08.12.09
Starting up again
“The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are.”
Phillips Brooks
What a blessing: to have a new school year ahead of us. Fresh start, new plans, new hopes and wishes… I can’t wait.
