This morning I drove toward Mt. Irenaeus in with a hint of snow in the air and a pall of overcast. It didn’t look like an idyllic Palm Sunday. Our liturgy began in the library under Holy Peace Chapel. Fr. Dan Riley, OFM blessed the palms and invited us to process outside, along the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lent’
Prelude
Posted in Catholic, Christianity, Jesus, Mt. Irenaeus, Music, Spiritual, St. Bonaventure University, tagged contemplative, Franciscan, holy week, Lent, mount irenaeus, St. Bonaventury University, Triduum on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Awaiting on you all
Posted in Music, culture, mindfulness, mystic, tagged contemplative, Gerorge Harrison, Lent, mystic, renewal on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my favorite musicians is and was George Harrison. He was the mystical Beatle. Harrison more than Lennon and McCartney seemed to be most in touch with the world around him. That might be very unfair to Ringo Starr and if so I apologize. One of my favorite Harrison lyrics is “Awaiting on You [...]
The light of the world
Posted in Catholic, Christianity, Jesus, Mt. Irenaeus, mystic, tagged blindness, Jesus, Lent, Wayne Dyer on March 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Today was a beautiful, sunny day as I drove toward Mt. Irenaeus. Today’s Gospel was about the young man born blind who regains his sight as a result of a miracle that Jesus performs. Blindness is always assumed to be a physical defect and nowadays no one even assumes that the victim got his [...]
Thoughts on prayer
Posted in mindfulness, monastic, mystic, prayer, tagged centering prayer, contemplative, Lent, mystic, prayer on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday, I wrote about what makes a monk. It was a popular post and even invited a response. I am a contemplative and maybe could even claim to be a mystic or at the very least attracted to mysticism. I love to sit in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Holy Thursday is approaching [...]
Hosea
Posted in mindfulness, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplation, Lent, Peace, truth on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I will lead you into the desert, and there I will speak to your heart. Hosea 2:14
Campaign 2008 and the news media in general have driven me into the desert. I’m really blessed because the onslaught of media both print, internet and televised has driven me to silence and contemplation. It’s been a gradual thing. [...]
Guns not butter
Posted in Peace, olean times herald, prayer, tagged contemplative, defense, Lent, military spending, Peace, war on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Tonight’s Olean Times Herald had a front page item that proclaimed that our new federal budget will break Medicare. The Times Herald is a pretty conservative paper. They have been unabashed apologists for much of the Bush agenda. Earlier today I read that for the first time in American history the defense budget has [...]
I’m going to listen
Posted in Christian, Thomas Merton, gratitude, mindfulness, mystic, nature, tagged Ash Wednesday, contemplation, Lent, Merton, rain on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What is Lent? Today I got up at 5:30 am and headed for the gym. It was raining hard. As I ran I could hear the rain beating on the roof of the gymnasium and I was reminded of Thomas Merton who said,
It will talk as long as it wants, this rain. As long as [...]
Ash Wednesday
Posted in Ahimsa, Christianity, Congress, Peace, military, mindfulness, mystic, prayer, tagged contemplative, Lent, prayer, silence, solitude on February 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent this year. Today many will return from Lenten services with ashes on their heads. I’ve been thinking about what I’m going to do for Lent this year. I’m going to spend more time in contemplative prayer. I’m being drawn more and more to silence and solitude. [...]
