Mar 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Collected Works of George Grant: Volume 4: 1970-1988 Edited by Arthur Davis and Henry Roper University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2009 George Grant (1918-1988) is viewed by many as ‘Canada’s greatest political philosopher’. George/Sheila Grant were also Anglicans....
Feb 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You have only to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the...
Jan 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Do not forget that the word “passion” means suffering, not sin. A greater part of the duty of the priest is to help heal human suffering. Sometimes, the passions lead us into sin just because of the bitterness that the passions cause. Open your heart to...
Jan 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Matthew 4: 1-11 “To love means to empower.” “Communion makes us vulnerable.” -from Becoming Human by Jean Vanier Just as there is daily bread, there is daily choice. At the root of choice is to love and trust God or not. As well, do justly and love our neighbor...
Jan 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Corrupt scales versus Justice Filthy rags versus Perfection Broken bloody gate Who else would allow anyone to pass? Preciously accurate scale, Who else would absorb the cost, the weight? We might call you broken But you are brilliant, shining, shining and strong...
Dec 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created as supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no value to men. The wasteland was the land that could never be wasted by men because it offered them nothing. There was nothing to...
