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
Mr. Bush has sent out his attack dogs to discredit Senate and House Democrats who are stipulating a time line for a withdrawal from Iraq.
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.
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 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
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.
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
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
The horrific events at Virginia Tech caused me to look again at a book I purchased at least a year ago. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of my favorite authors and
