Wise Words On Wednesday: Kenosis

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

Friday Frivolity: Meditation, the right way

Coffee

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 🙂

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