Tag: contemplation
Discover your own inner ground
The way to find the real ‘world’ is not merely to measure and observe what is outside us, but to discover our own inner ground. For that is where the world is, first of all: in my deepest self. This ‘ground,’ this ‘world’ where I am mysteriously present at once to my own self and… Read More ›
Contemplation of how God is understood from Creation
So therefore when the Saints behold the creation, and its fine order and proportion and the need that each part has of the whole, and how all the perfect parts have been fashioned wisely and with providence in accordance with reason that fashioned them, and how what has come to be is found to be… Read More ›
Psalm 48(47): O God we ponder your love within your temple
1. The Psalm just proclaimed is a canticle in honour of Zion, “the city of the great King” (Ps 47 [48],3), at the time, the seat of the temple of the Lord and the place of his presence in the midst of humanity. Christian faith now applies it to “Jerusalem above” which is “our mother”… Read More ›
The mask that each man wears . . .
[The] self is not by nature evil, and the fact that it is unsubstantial is not to be imputed to it as some kind of crime. It is afflicted with metaphysical poverty: but all that is poor deserves mercy. So too our outward self: as long as it does not isolate itself in a lie,… Read More ›
The appointment
No matter what we are doing, or where we are at, there is an element of inner waiting often not averted to, as if something is moving towards us inexorably. When young it was hardly noticed or thought about, though it would be forced upon consciousness when someone’s time had come, their number called and… Read More ›
Finding Interior Solitude
You will never find interior solitude unless you make some conscious effort to deliver yourself from the desires and the cares and the attachments of an existence in time and in the world. Do everything you can to avoid the noise and the business of men. Keep as far away as you can from the… Read More ›
I was born in a mask
To say I was born in sin is to say I came into the world with a false self. I was born in a mask. I came into existence under a sign of contradiction, being someone that I was never intended to be and therefore a denial of what I am supposed to be. And… Read More ›
Prayer without Ceasing: O God, Come to my assistance
. . . this was delivered to us by a few of those who were left of the oldest fathers, so it is only divulged by us to a very few and to those who are really keen. And so for keeping up continual recollection of God this pious formula is to be ever set… Read More ›
Havana Prelate Shares Notes From Cardinal Bergoglio’s Pre-Conclave Speech
Argentine Archbishop Warned Against a ‘Worldly Church’ The archbishop of Havana says that a speech given by Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) during the cardinals’ pre-conclave meetings was “masterful” and “clear.” Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino spoke of Cardinal Bergoglio’s speech at a Mass on Saturday in Cuba, having returned home from his… Read More ›
Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone Asks Contemplatives for Prayer
Vatican City, 25 February 2013 (VIS) – Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., sent a letter to the monasteries devoted to contemplative life around the world, invitign them to intensify their prayers at this special moment in the life of the Church. Following is the entire text of the message that is dated 21… Read More ›