I spent the weekend at the Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Regional meeting of the Secular Franciscan Order. It was my first time attending the regional gathering
contemplative
Mindfulness
This came to me in an email from a Buddhist friend. Beyond the ubiquity of stress and pain operating in my own life, my motivation to practice mindfulness is fairly simple: Each moment missed is a moment unlived. Each moment missed makes it more likely I will miss the next moment, and live through it … Read more
St. Francis and the Sultan
Colonel Dan Smith who authors one blogs on my blogroll has a familiar story in his post today. That is the story of St. Francis and the Sultan Malik al Kamil.
Love conquers all
I’ve just finished viewing a clip from This Week with George Stephanopoulos in which Newt Gingrich blames liberals for the Virginia Tech massacre.
Contemplative walk
Contemplative living has seeped slowly into my life over the years. Today was one of those days that I really felt called to spend sometime alone with my creator
Romans 12 and other thoughts
Today Fr. Lou McCormick’s homily at Mt. Irenaeus was about the hope offered by the resurrection. He knew well that we had all been through a week marred by the massacre at Virginia Tech and the endless cycle of violence in Iraq and elsewhere in the world.
No longer in limbo
Thanks to Pope Benedict XVI unbaptized children are saved.
People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.–Dorothy Day
Be the change
Yesterday I read a comment from a reader and it made me want to expand more on what I have written. I am profoundly saddened by the destruction of our country