The dispositions, offered here … point to a way where we come to our true selves by going beyond ourselves, discovering who we really are through awareness, love, responsibility and commitment. Holiness means assuming total responsibility for all that we are and not simply for how we appear to other human beings. Donald Nicholl “Response” […]
Prayer is not telling God what to do, but becoming aware of just how intimately and immediately present God is to our world, to the ones we pray for and to ourselves. _______________________________ I want to beg you as much as I can…to be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try […]
Prayer is not telling God what to do, but becoming aware of just how intimately and immediately present God is to our world, to the ones we pray for and to ourselves. _____________________________ …Not only to know where you are but to learn to love what you find there. Kathleen Norris If, as you get […]
Prayer is not telling God what to do, but becoming aware of just how intimately and immediately present God is to our world, to the ones we pray for and to ourselves. …in everyday life it is the plain facts and natural happenings that conceal God and reveal him to us little […]
We take a pause from the series of meditations on Becoming a Human Being as we enter the season of Lent. Each week during the Lent and Easter seasons there will be a simple meditation that gives you an invitation to put into practice a disposition or attitude that allows you to become more fully […]
When you make a speech, you are attempting an embrace – you are saying to your listeners – you and me both. Don Watson Don Watson, in a book called Death Sentence (on the decay of public language), says that when you make a speech, you are attempting an embrace – you are saying to […]
“The slow fire of the impossible is lit….by the imagination” Emily Dickinson We are made in God’s image – and are image bearers and image makers. We grasp or deal with reality through our imaginations. The power of our imaginations can “release the emotions and move us to action”. “Images are forms of transport. They […]
Every person is already radically open [to God] in the very core of his or her being. Richard McBrien In prayer we discover what we already have. You stand where you are, you deepen what you already have, and you realize that you are already there. We already have everything, but we don’t know it, […]
We were conceived in the mind of God as the partner in a dialogue. Hans Urs von Balthasar Dialogue demands that I leave the place I dwell – the landscape of feelings and thoughts that seem important to me – in order to dwell with your thoughts, feelings, perceptions, fears, hopes. I must deny myself […]
We begin 2022 with a series of Fr Philip’s meditations based on the writings of Julian of Norwich, (1342?-1420), the most popular of the English mystics. As an anchoress she lived in a cell attached to a Norwich church and engaged in prayer and spiritual guidance. I was born a man (woman), but now my […]