Off to Medjugorje in six days. Decided to skip the 29th anniversary of the apparitions on June 25th because of the crowds, and probably couldn't have gotten a room in any case. What is amazing to me (why?) is that despite...
MEDJUGORJE THRIVING
Jun 21, 2010
Jun 20, 2010
QUOTE OF THE DAY: NEW GAY SPIRITUAL BLOG
I just came across this wonderful blog created by a young spiritual gay man. The blog is filled with musings on many spiritual topics and well worth checking out.: In Exsilium
Of his many inspiring posts on a variety of esoteric (and exoteric) subjects, I especially loved his reflection on the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Her Holy Heart is the...
Jun 19, 2010
Love the Sinner
I'm off to London on Monday for a week of theatre, followed by a trip to Croatia and Medjugorje, the famous (or infamous) site of Marian apparitions, recently "condemned" by the Vatican. I'm paying 180 Euros a night for a luxury hotel on the sea in Dubrovnik, and 10 Euros a night for a room in a guest house in Medjugorje. Let no one say the people...
Jun 15, 2010
Without Buddha I could not be a Christian
Just started reading pluralist theologian, Paul Knitter's recent book, Without Buddha I could not be a Christian, which promises to be rewarding, provacative and inspiring. Here is Tom Driver's review from The Christian...
Jun 13, 2010
CONFIRMATION AT JOHN OF THE ROCK
I attended a very moving confirmation ceremony this Sunday at the beautiful baroque church of St. John of Nepomuk on the Rock which I've described in earlier postings on this blog. Two of my younger students were...
Jun 12, 2010
HEART OF JESUS
Thanks to Michael Bayley at Wild Reed for this beautiful image:
From the We...
Jun 11, 2010
RETURN TO THE CENTRE
Prophetic words taken from Return to the Centre by Father Bede Griffiths. OSB (1976)
What is the reason that modern society has lost this principle of integration?The reason seems to be this. In the Middle Ages - that is,...
Jun 10, 2010
Jun 7, 2010
BARBARIANS AT THE GATE: CHRIS HEDGES ON THE THREAT OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT
Another powerful prophetic warning from Chris Hedges at TruthDig Posted on Jun 7, 2010
Truthdig collage based on a White House photo by Pete Souza
By Chris HedgesTens of millions of Americans, lumped into...
Jun 5, 2010
THE SPIRIT BLOWS WHERE SHE WILL
The Prague Fringe festival is underway in this city of many theaters (almost as many as there are churches). One of the venues hosting events is the lovely little Hussite Church of St. John the Baptist in Mala Strana at...
QUOTE OF THE DAY FROM THE WILD REED
Found this at Michael Baley's Wild Reed: In the Garden of Spirituality - Jeanette Blonigen Clancy
For greater spiritual depth, we have to take the focus off worshiping an external god, a certain image of God named Jesus, and instead facilitate awareness of every person’s Higher Power, whatever that person likes to call it — the Force, the...
Jun 4, 2010
QUOTE OF THE DAY FROM JOHN MCNEILL
This just in from John McNeill on the recent Vatican decision to deny ordination to openly gay men:
I see in this move by the Vatican the shrewdness of the Holy Spirit! The celibate male priesthood is dying out. The number of candidates entering the seminary are rapidly declining. The average priest is over 60 and a vanishing breed with no...
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