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On Addiction

I don’t drink. But, when alcohol comes to mind, I am flooded with pleasant images — there is nothing repugnant about those first recollections. They are nothing but attractive! I recall also the relief from the moments immediately before using.…

February 5, 2023February 5, 2023

Getting Started

Let me respectfully remind you:Life and Death are of supreme importance.Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost..Each of us should strive to awaken.Awaken! Take heed!Do not squander your life. — traditional Zen Evening Gatha The Third Kind of Humility…

January 18, 2023February 12, 2023

O tempora, O mores!

Flickr photographer siliconchaos / Robert Wallace, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons “The world seduces us with the show of its vanities and pleasures. Most worldly gatherings cater to curiosity, to sensuality, and even to lust. Vice is made…

January 18, 2023February 12, 2023

Feast Day of St. John of the Cross

In the words of my Confirmation Saint: The apostle Paul said of Christ: “In him are hidden all the treasures of the wisdom and knowledge of God.” The soul cannot enter into these treasures, nor attain them, unless it first…

December 14, 2022February 12, 2023

Victimless Sins?

There is no such thing as a victimless sin. Every sin is contrary to the will of God as expressed in Scripture and Church teaching. If one pursues the theological threads, one finds a rational basis for even seemingly “arbitrary”…

December 7, 2022February 12, 2023

Is Church Moral Teaching too Demanding?

Those who claim that Church moral teaching is too demanding, that it is humanly impossible to comply, are agreeing with Jesus! But the Church further affirms that, insofar as compliance is possible, it depends upon God’s grace, starting with the…

December 6, 2022February 12, 2023

Culture Wars

A few days ago, I visited the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), the temple of culture I once adored in my pre-Catholic years. I gravitated naturally to revisit the Medieval collection to renew my acquaintance with the religious art…

November 30, 2022February 12, 2023

Flesh and Spirit

Indeed embrace the Earth. Embrace the glorious beauty of the incarnate, the very essence of Life! The very nature of the branches, whose lives are certainly meaningless without the vine, is not confined to the consumption of the Divine sap…

November 15, 2022February 12, 2023

The Challenge of the Living Flame of Love

As I struggle for resolution through this final full day of retreat, I was led to continue my reading of the Living Flame of Love. There I encountered a serious challenge to my perfection! No coincidence of course. It starts…

July 14, 2022February 12, 2023

Annunciation

Another child was lost again that day. So she, not far from childhood still herself, went up the rocky path to find the boy. The village mothers always sought her help. He sang and played in innocence sublime, when she…

May 30, 2022January 7, 2023

Reflections on the morning of Palm Sunday

My call to honor my middle name, Arthur: My father’s questing life never attained satisfaction. He died in desolation, isolation and loss. He seemed to eventually attain a kind of stoic cynicism. In his questing, his search for meaning or…

April 10, 2022January 7, 2023

I Lay Down my Arms

In the words of a great soldier: Take and receive, O Lord, my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess, You have given me. I surrender it all…

March 25, 2022January 18, 2023

Seasonal Tapestry

We’ll buy exactly what we want from choices we are told to choose, for now’s the time to celebrate — the season for the time to take Our love is measured out in flash; we know exactly what is more…

November 27, 2021February 5, 2023

Sheep

“My sheep hear my voice; I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can take them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is…

January 25, 2021January 7, 2023

Why Catholicism?

I’m a beginner. Perhaps a sophisticated one, but that claim is also a warning — in part it relates to the threats of self-deception and self-obsession, and note that the word “sophisticated” contains the word “sophist.” In a general sense,…

January 25, 2021February 12, 2023

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