A Musing on Charism (Part II of II)
Trinity, Cosmic Principles and Charism Our faith experience reveals that the Trinity, ‘Father, Son, and Spirit,’ is One—i.e. three ways of being totally given one to the other with nothing…
Trinity, Cosmic Principles and Charism Our faith experience reveals that the Trinity, ‘Father, Son, and Spirit,’ is One—i.e. three ways of being totally given one to the other with nothing…
The Gift of the SpiritWhen it comes to the charism — the gift of the Spirit — that animates our RNDM lives, I am struck by a simple truth: it…
Advent 2023 was a different one for me. Against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian war wreaking unimaginable devastation on already bereft people, the ongoing violence in the Ukraine, Myanmar, and…
Newsflash: There is such pain in the world! It is not suffering in general that overwhelms me, but when it devolves into cruelty, brutality, and ruthless violence I feel cut…
I look forward to Tuesdays. The day gets off to a quick start as my companion and I ready ourselves for the rather long bus-train trek to Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn,…
Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:37-44 (RM) or 36-44 (RCL.) It’s the purple season for Roman Catholics, blue season for Protestants. It’s the standing-on-tiptoes-craning your-neck season (and not…
Student demonstrations in Europe and the U.S., Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy being shot, Trappist monk Thomas Merton being electrocuted in Thailand, my Father dying tragically, and my becoming…