Gifting for Peace and Justice The Christmas season is all about gifts. After all, God gifted us with Emmanuel - God with us- with skin on, and we show our amazement and gratitude by giving gifts to others. But how do we ...
o be contemplative is to adopt a posture of openness to the Presence and Action of God in all things and at all times. As we expectantly await our own future as a parish and an archdiocese, the welcoming posture of contemplation can be brought to bear. Brian McLaren reflects on a contemplative relationship to the future:...
Contemplative practice is welcoming Reality as it is, and finding truth, goodness, beauty, holiness, healing and love in that reality. This includes welcoming all that is true, good, beautiful, holy, healing and loving within ourselves, Christ birthed in and through our own being. The idea of affirming our own giftedness is simple enough, but it may not come easy, especially for those who did not have a ....
Dr. John M. de Castro reflects on some of the contemplative dimensions of thankfulness: Certainly one of the most taken for granted amazing blessings that we have is our own awareness… Reflect for a moment what a miracle it is. There is an essence to us that is forever present and unchanging. What we are aware of
Black Catholic History Month – Did you know? Servant of God Mother Mary Lange is on her way to canonization. Born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange probably in Haiti about 1790, she was raised in Cuba. At some point when she was young, she moved to the United States and settled in Baltimore, Maryland among the French speaking population coming from Haiti. Around 1818, Elizabeth and her friend, ...
Dedicated contemplative practice will bear fruit, although the timetable and the precise manifestations of these fruits will be unique for each person. Among the fruits that have been observed in contemplatives through the ages is a desire to spread God’s justice through ...