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Advent Meditation for Friday, December 23: O Emmanuel
Community Humans live in groups, and honesty and candor are essential both to the health of the community and the individuals in it. What would happen if our public discourse took into account that we are all members of a … Continue reading
Advent Meditation for Thursday, December 22: O Rex Gentium
Guests We are all guests in the world, and all equally present in time. The most artificial distinction of all is the distinction between oneself and others. For practical purposes we make that distinction all the time. I am I; … Continue reading
Advent Meditation for Wednesday, December 21: Feast of St. Thomas, Apostle; O Oriens
Worship The heart of worship is thanksgiving. It is not an accident that eucharist means thanksgiving. There are other things that worship typically includes: confession, adoration, supplication. But giving thanks is central. We can go nowhere where God is not. … Continue reading
Advent Meditation for Tuesday, December 20: O Clavis David
Meals What might happen if every meal we ate consciously as if it were a eucharist? A trait that runs in my family is grazing. My mother grazed, frequently stopping by the refrigerator or a cabinet to get a handful … Continue reading
Advent Meditation for Monday, December 19: O Radix Jesse; Feast of Lillian Thrasher, Missionary, 1961
Service Living life as if the pursuit of goods and recognition is its purpose destroys it. Perhaps the clearest call of the gospel beckons us to give ourselves in humble service to those in need, sickness, or some other adversity. … Continue reading
Advent Meditation for Sunday, December 18: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, O Adonai
Stewardship The real issue of stewardship is nothing more and nothing less than the issue of how to be a (successful) living organism on this planet. It is the matter of how we relate to the world around us. We … Continue reading
Advent Meditation for Friday, December 16, 2011: Feast of Ralph Adams Cram, Richard Upjohn and John LaFarge, Architects, 1942, 1878; Artist, 1910
The Twelve Stages of Humility, 10-12 Never take pleasure in the shortcomings or misfortunes of another. I would not think of laughing at someone else’s misfortune. Would I? I cannot imagine or recall a time when I smiled with glee … Continue reading
Thursday, December 15: Feast of Robert McDonald, Priest, 1913
The Twelve Stages of Humility, 9 Refrain from judgment. Most of us understand “judge not that ye be not judged.” I am not so sure that we understand what it is not to judge in a more general, global sense. … Continue reading
Advent Meditation for Wednesday, December 14: Feast of San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), Mystic, 1591
The Twelve Stages of Humility, 7 and 8 Our most profound idea is the merest fantasy. Well that’s disappointing. I don’t know that I have ever had profound ideas, but I have certainly loved some of the ideas that I … Continue reading
Advent Meditation for Tuesday, December 13: Feast of St. Lucy, Martyr, 304
The Twelve Stages of Humility, 5 and 6 Do not lie to yourself nor conceal your faults, but be ruthlessly honest. Sounds good. The truth of the matter is that each of us lives by a story, one we tell … Continue reading
