We are a marvelous mixture of well-being and woe. Julian of Norwich My inconsistencies are but the revelation of who I am. …I am full of contradiction: to realize it is mercy, to accept it is love and to help others do the same is compassion.Thomas Merton …behind and beneath the smooth wheels of the […]
I am beginning to hear the gospel at the level of my identity. Miriam-Rose Ungenmer Baumann ____________________________________________ Discipleship is the only form in which faith in Jesus can exist.Eduard Schweizer _________________________________________ We will never know what we do not do.Dietrich Bonhoeffer _____________________________________ Truth is that indestructible life that is open to us when we cease […]
The images in this post are representations of Jesus with his disciples at the last supper and on the journey to Emmaus. Mark dares to turn the great self-revelatory tradition of Yahweh from a declaration “I AM” into a question: “Who am I?” Ched Myers ___________________________________________ I don’t know Who – or what – put […]
This week we begin a new series, ‘Who is Jesus?’. Fr Philip Carter leads us to reflect on the person of Jesus and the stories of Jesus as they speak into our own lives. The images and music accompanying the meditations show responses to the person of Jesus from different cultural perspectives. Christianity consists of […]
The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. John 3:8 ___________________________________ In our anguish we struggleTo elude Him, yet His love observesHis appalling promise; His predilectionAs we wander and weep is with us to the end.Minding our […]
The true radicalism in the doctrine of God can only be a continual destruction of an idol Karl Rahner ____________________________________ The true radicalism in the doctrine of God can only be a continual destruction of an idol, an idol in the place of God, the idol of a theory of God.Karl Rahner ______________________________________ My idea […]
If you’ve never run away from God, I wonder who your God is? Paul Tillich Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of the mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, or even, at times, without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. […]
Tell all the truth, but tell it slantSuccess in circuit lies Emily Dickinson By love God may be grasped and held: by thought neverThe Cloud of Unknowing _______________________________________ God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.Evagrius of Pontus When we speak of God, using names and […]
For I greet him the days I meet him, and bless when I understand Gerard Manly Hopkins As a focus of absolute trust, one to whom you can give yourself without fear of betrayal, the holy mystery of God undergirds and implicitly gives direction to all of a believing person’s enterprises, principles, choices, systems of […]
This post begins a new series of meditations by Fr Philip Carter, Approaching God. This series will be accompanied by images and music from Hildegard of Bingen, medieval nun and abbess, scientist, musician, artist, mystic and saint. The notion that what we happen to apprehend directly with our five senses is all the reality there […]