Jul 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
"As the last stage in the divine descent (katabasis) and self-emptying (kenosis), the descent of Christ into Hades became at the same time the starting point of the ascent of humanity towards deification (theosis). Since this descent, the path to paradise is...
Jul 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
In my travels I often minister in places where people’s expectations of God’s intervention to bring healing or any kind of transformation are low. This is usually because they’ve suffered big disappointments: praying for friends and family who haven’t been...
Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Moon Wouldn't Let The Sky Be Dark You were the one whose name I heard when the wind moved through the valley. I heard the trees whisper it, but you weren't listening at the time. The moon kept pouring more and more silver into the sleeping...
Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Several years ago, the superior of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Rome asked Fr. Ronald Rolheiser to compile a list of the major spiritual questions bubbling in the Catholic world, based on his experience as a writer and speaker. At NCR’s request,...
Jul 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Tangled We found the finch, eyes clear but wings limp as string, its spindly feet twisted in wire. Untangling toes, you were quick to stroke ruffed feathers; then you hung back: the small body fluttered to the oak. You wear your fatigue like...
Jul 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
What’s Beneath The Surface If you were someday to rise out of the foaming waters of the sea to count the stones and broken shells of my heart, If you were to listen there and to separate the gull’s cry from the sucking sounds of stones beneath inhaling waves,...
