JOAN OF ARC...
PRINCES OF THE CHURCH CONFOUNDED
Oct 26, 2009
Oct 25, 2009
THE LOVE OF SIAM
The Love of Siam - First Kiss
The Love of Siam
Rak haeng Siam
International Showcase
(Thailand | 2007 | 158 mins | 35mm)
In Thai with English subtitles
35mm
Directed By: Chookiat Sakveerakul
Exec....
Oct 23, 2009
ISLANDS OF LIGHT
The folly of the recent move by Pope Benedict to welcome alienated priests from the Anglican communion into the Roman Catholic Church, a profound act of betrayal of the spirit of ecumenism, should not be a cause of...
Oct 19, 2009
Bishop Duhart, the Death of Merton and the Vietnam War.
It's rather strange and mysterious how these postings take on a life of their own. Terence Weldon of Queering the Church responded to an earlier post of mine yesterday on the death of Thomas Merton by quoting from The Pilgrim...
TATRAS MOUNTAINS
Taking off for four days for some skiing and climbing in the high Tatras Mountains in Northern Slovakia....
NON CHRISTIAN STIGMATA?
Posting this just for fun.
Among the Waraw of the Orinoco Delta, a contemplator of tutelary spirits may mystically induce the development of "openings in the palms of his hands." These tutelary spirits are presented by...
REBIRTH
MESSAGE
Life has left her footprints on my forehead
but I have become a child again this morning,
The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back, to smooth
away the wrinkles
as the rains wipe away footprints on the...
PEACE
PEACE
They woke me this morning
to tell me my brother had been killed in battle.
Yet in the garden, uncurling moist petals,
a new rose blooms on the bush.
And I am alive, can still breathe the fragrance of roses and...
MERTON & THICH NHAT HANH
In May 1966 Merton had a visit from Thich Nhat Hanh (pronounced Tick-Naught-Han), a Buddhist monk, Zen Master, a poet from Vietnam, and a peace activist. During the Vietnam War, Nhat Hanh worked tirelessly to reconcile...
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ON BAT NHA MONASTERY EXPULSION
Help Bat Nha Monastery
Vietnam Buddhist case shows suppression: watchdog
By Ian Timberlake (AFP) – 4 hours ago
(Zen Buddhist monk leader Thich Nhat Hanh prays at a requiem for Vietnam War victims near...
Oct 18, 2009
THE ART OF BRUNO GRASSI
One of my favorite religious artists, Bruno Grassi
WEDDING FEAST AT CANA
RESURRECTIO...
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
In light of certain recent private conversations I've been having, I thought I would come clean about my blogger name, "Jayden." This is a nick name given me by my beloved drama students three years ago who were in the...
Oct 17, 2009
MORBID THOUGHTS AT MIDNIGHT
Today (or yesterday, depending) is the feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr, successor to St. Peter as bishop of the See of Antioch, and who suffered martyrdom by being devoured by beasts in the Flavian Amphitheatre...
THE LADY IN WHITE
We were on a jungle walk at Lata Berkoh in the Pahang National Park, Malaysia (in the 1980's), and came to a nearly dry river bed, narrowed down to a channel of powerful rushing water just too wide for anyone of us to jump...
Oct 16, 2009
A WORTHIER RECEPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
by James Ure of The Buddhist Blog
The candidate that I would have chosen would be the 82 year old Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh who was nominated in 1967. He was nominated by his friend the great...
THE NEXT DALAI LAMA TO BE A WOMAN?
In 50 years of exile from Tibet, this self-professed “simple monk” has been the driving force behind the growing prominence of women in Tibetan exile society. He has even suggested that his next reincarnation could and should...
AN INCLUSIVE LAST SUPPER
Found at BASIC...
Chagall's Yellow Crucifixion
In "The Yellow Crucifixion," Jesus wears the phylacteries or tefillin donned by Orthdox Jews for their morning prayers. The off-center figure of the crucified Jesus shares the central space of the picture with...
Oct 14, 2009
GARABANDAL AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE EUCHARIST
Angels figure very prominently in the Marian apparitions of Garabandal, Spain, mainly distributing 'Holy Communion' to the four young visionaries. The essential message of Garabandal, apart from the now familiar call to...
BENEDICT, THE WHITE LADY AND GEORGE
Every time I see this Vatican couple, I can't help but believe this is the classic example of a closeted, deeply repressed gay man and his secret paramour - in a relationship that is undoubtedly chaste. And I'm not trying...
Oct 12, 2009
RESISTING PSYCHIC POISONS
Some very fierce battles are being waged at the moment at the great blogs, Bilgrimage, Enlightened Catholicism, Queering the Church, Wild Reed, over the major justice issues of the day in the Church, in particular,...
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