Friday Frivolity: Pun with Lawrence
I’m over a week late for his feast day, but anyway…
Month: August 2016
Wise Words On Wednesday: Kenosis
Whether it’s turning twenty-one, forty, or sixty-five, whether it’s losing your health or your hair, your books or your beauty, your money or your memory, a person you love or a possession you prize, yesterday’s rapture or today’s applause, you have to move on. Essential to the human’s pilgrimage to the Christian journey is the self-emptying more or less like Christ’s own emptying. Time and again, from womb to tomb, you have to let go. And to let go is to die a little. It’s painful, it can be bloody; and so we hang [on], clutch our yesterday’s, like Linus’s blanket, refuse to grow
– Walter Burghardt
Happy Assumption!
Happy Feast of the Assumption/Dormition 🙂
Music Monday: Beneath the Mantle
Today is another entry from “Jesus, I trust in you”, which is a combination of Marian prayers, including the ancient Christian hymn, Beneath your compassion:
Friday Frivolity: Meditation, the right way
When I posted this on Facebook one of my friends questioned the authenticity of this quotation. It comes from Sheen’s “The Priest Is Not His Own”:
“The average American is physically, biologically, psychologically and neurologically unable to do anything worthwhile before he has a cup of coffee. And that goes for prayer too. Even sisters in convents whose rules were written before electric percolators were developed would do well to update their procedures. Let them have coffee before meditation.”
– Fulton Sheen, The Priest Is Not His Own
…with that said, I’m now off for a cup of tea 🙂
Wise Words on Wednesday: Training for the future
Some Olympians train for years for a ten-second race. Musicians put in countless hours of practice for a two-hour performance. Blood, sweat, and tears are poured into sports and performance for trophies, medals and stories to tell your grandkids someday.
So, how hard are you willing to train to become the woman of your dreams, or the man you long to be? To what lengths are you willing to go and in what ways are you willing to sacrifice – right now – for your future spouse and family?
– Sarah Swafford, Emotional Virtue
Music Monday: A Prayer of Repentance
One of my friends went to World Youth Day in Kraków this year and came back with a CD called “Jesus, I trust in You” which was directed by Hubert Kowalski. It’s gorgeous. If you are familiar with the Taizé style of music it will seem very familiar. Below is my favourite track from the CD, Psalm 51 (50), David’s prayer of repentance: