Weekly Word
The direction we take at this new crossroad in time will not simply affect the future of the United States. It will determine the history of the world.
Give us, O God,
leaders whose hearts are large enough
to match the breadth of our own souls
and give us souls strong enough
The problem of the nature of faith plagues us all our lives. Is openness to other ideas infidelity, or is it the beginning of spiritual maturity?
Confucius may have said it best: “Everything has beauty,” he taught, “but not everyone sees it.” Seeing it, the spiritual person knows, is the task of a lifetime.
Patience and care are two pillars of Benedictine community. They hold up before our eyes, in blinding light, in immovable form, what is to be the nature of our presence in the world.
It is necessary for all of us, at all times, to understand that female and feminist are not the same things.
Once upon a time, an ancient story tells, the main tributary of a mountain stream became polluted.
Give us, O God,
leaders whose hearts are large enough
to match the breadth of our own souls
and give us souls strong enough
Unfortunately, the vision of Jesus the Prophet has become quite domesticated over the centuries.
In a Monastery of the Heart, the Benedictine soul learns always to return to the cave of the heart, where the superfluities of life do not distract from the significance of life.
One day, a traveler begged the Teacher for a word of wisdom that would guide the rest of the journey.
“Old age,” in Louis Kronenberger’s view, “is an excellent time for outrage. My goal,” he went on, “is to say or do at least one outrageous thing a week.
The spiritual life is not something that is gotten for the wishing or assumed by affectation. The spiritual life takes discipline. It is something to be learned, to be internalized.
Psalm 16 sings, “You will not allow the one you love to see the pit; you will reveal the path of life to me, give me unbounded joy in your presence.” Those whom God loves, the psalm promises, will
Once upon a time, the ancients tell us, a disciple said to the rabbi, “God took six days to create the world and it is not perfect.