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A fellow Secular Franciscan has asked that I plug his book on this blog. That sounds like a great idea. Antony Outhwaite, SFO of Mountain Top, Pennyslvania has written a book, “Rediscovering the Rosary”, it is available at Amazon.com and at Lulu Press. I carry a Franciscan Crown Rosary with me in the car. During … Read more

I used to wear a WWJD, bracelet. It was a great idea and it was one of those things that helps one to examine their behavior. I came across well written piece from the San Francisco Chronicle. It seems to me that the term Christian nowadays connotes a narrow minded increasingly war like persona that … Read more

I came across a well written piece today in my net travels and I thought it was worth pointing you in that direction. “The center isn’t holding so well here, either. When idealists of both parties ran away from politics–under the impact of Watergate, fundamentalism, corruption, conservative smear tactics, and general apathy–the center became hollow. … Read more

Internet Monk is offering a free podcast of Thomas Merton. It’s very cool to know that Merton is still causing such a stir in the evangelical community. I haven’t listened to much of the podcast but so far it is interesting. Contemplative prayer gets short shrift in much of the evangelical community. There are many … Read more

I’m learning how to write an RSS feed for the school district I work at. Naturally, I had to check out my work to make sure that it looked okay. In doing so I needed to install a feed reader. I discovered one that’s easy to use and install. It’s called Sage Feed Reader and … Read more

I came across this hopeful video on Youtube tonight. I hope it gives you a reason to hope for peace. Pray for peace, live peace, be peace. Live as though you really knew the Prince of Peace. Images are powerful and this video says a lot more than I could write if I wrote pages. … Read more

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.–St. Isaac of Ninevah Technorati Tags:wisdom, divine

This came from a young man spending the summer in service to others at Mt. Irenaeus. He was kind enough to forward it to me on email tonight. Nothing is more practical than finding God,That is, falling in love in a quiteabsolute way What you are in love with, What seizes your imaginationWill affect everything. … Read more

Today, I bought one of those $5 albums at the checkout counter. It’s entitled, “Ladies Got Soul”, and it has some all time soul favorites like Aretha Franklin, Evelyn Champagne King, Gloria Gaynor and Diana Ross. Listening to the album brought back a flood of memories from 20 and 30 years ago. I grew up … Read more

I’ve gone back to using Centos Enterprise Linux on my notebook. I enjoyed a nearly two month experience with Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake. I’m impressed by the Ubuntu community and how well they support their users. However, I’ve been attempting to do some development work with MySQL and PHP and I just couldn’t get Apache, … Read more