Apr 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
STONES One of Zeno's paradoxes claims to prove you can never arrive at your destination, as you must first travel halfway there,then halfway again, another half always in front of you.Forever prohibited from finishing the race. Another claims,...
Apr 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today marks the 75th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s martyrdom. The crucible in which Bonhoeffer lived and died—Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War Two—has been seen, up until now, as the greatest existential threat humanity has faced in modern...
Apr 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Magnetized toward the quest to find the harmonious amid the dissonant, the common amid the diverse, the contemplative mind untethers itself from the attentions of the day and looks beyond what is demanded of it in hopes of finding order and continuity. A profoundly...
Apr 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
We find ourselves in the eye of a tornado, in the epicenter of a pandemic. Everything is swirling by. It’s very much like being in war. Death surrounds us. Everyone is a soldier now. Everyone is a soldier now. We must remain vigilant, keeping ourselves...
Mar 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist,and into them enters suffering,that they might exist.—Léon Bloy Part I: Winter Has Come Too EarlyLike you, I imagine, I find that during these unprecedented days, I’m in a constant oscillation between grief and hope....
Mar 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
"For I was hungry . . . .", a reflection following the reading of the Gospel, Matthew 25. Vladika Lazar asked David Goa to reflect on Matthew 25, the appointed reading for the Sunday of the Last Judgement, All Saints of North America Monastery, Dewdney,...
