Contemplation

Contemplation

“Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers. It never rushes to judgment, and in fact avoids making quick judgments because judgements have more to do with egoic, personal control than...
Becoming the Beloved

Becoming the Beloved

“Becoming the Beloved means letting the truth of our Belovedness become enfleshed in everything we think, say or do. It entails a long and painful process of appropriation or, better, incarnation…. Becoming the Beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from...
Two-Fold Love of God and Our Neighbor

Two-Fold Love of God and Our Neighbor

“My children, all of us—male and female—know about being saved. Through our own negligence, we stray away from salvation. First of all, we must observe the precepts known through the grace of the Lord. These are: ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your...
Adoration

Adoration

Take a moment today to reflect on this quote from Evelyn Underhill. Consider for a moment what, in practice, the word Adoration implies. The upward and outward look of humble and joyful admiration. Awe-struck delight in the splendour and beauty of God, the action of...
Love, a Universal Language

Love, a Universal Language

Love, which might be called the attraction of all things toward all things, is a universal language and underlying energy that keeps showing itself despite our best efforts to resist it. It is so simple that it is hard to teach in words, yet we all know it when we see...
Discovering the Holy Spirit

Discovering the Holy Spirit

Monday Morning Meditation Minute When the spiritual intellect is stripped of its obsessions, it discovers the Holy Spirit, and in the same way, the Spirit initiates it into the fullness of its hopes.  -Thalassios the Libyan