Dec 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
For many reasons we have chosen St. John the Baptist as the patron of our Center for Action and Contemplation. Our feast day is celebrated on June 24, as the sun (reminiscent of John 3:30) agrees to decrease. John the Baptist is the prophet who rejects the...
Dec 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
"Do you and I need to flatter the gods any more? They’re tearing us apart . . . oh, how shall I bear it? . . . and what worse can they do? Of course the Fox is wrong. He knows nothing about her. He thought too well of the world. He thought there were no gods, or...
Dec 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
This Christmas season there has been something that has been gnawing away at me more than it has in other years. Like everyone else, I enjoy the nativity pageants: the children waving at their parents, re-inventing their lines (if they remember them at all), picking...
Dec 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
It has been hard to say, ‘I did what I could’ – when that means That I have to admit That I can’t hold...
Dec 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
Nothing can be farther from the truth than the facile belief that God only manifests himself in progress, in the improvement of standards of living, in the spread of medicine and the reform of abuses, in the diffusion of organized Christianity. The reaction from this...
Dec 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
