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LENTEN FIRE: March 11
From Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers Being a witness for God Question: I want to be a witness for God. Answer: If someone bears with his neighbor during a fit of...
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LENTEN FIRE: March 12
From Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers Do what you can A brother in Scetis fell one time due to temptation and went to Abba Macarius the Alexandrian and told him...
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LENTEN FIRE: March 13
From Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers Every breath we take Abba Macarius said, “Let us not slacken our resolve nor be without hope, for with every breath we take our...
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LENTEN FIRE: March 16
From Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers See the sin but not the repentance An old man said, “Even if someone sins in some way in your presence, do not judge him but...
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LENTEN FIRE: March 17
From Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers Torn to pieces A brother who had renounced the world and distributed what he owned among the poor, but who kept a few things...
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LENTEN FIRE: Tuesday in Holy Week
From Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers As for me A brother went to Abba Matoës and said to him, “How is it that the monks of Scetis did more than the Scriptures...
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SATURDAY READING: John as Model for Contemporary Christians, by Alexander J....
From John the Baptist: Prophet and Disciple John the Baptist, since the time of the Counter-Reformation, has been lost to the Christian tradition. Some biblical scholars try to confine him to the...
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PEACE: Thomas Merton’s Call To Contemplation And Action, by Henri Nouwen
From The Road to Peace A reading from the Second Letter of Peter: This point must not be overlooked, dear friends. In the Lord’s eyes, one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a day....
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SERMON: A Sermon On Luke 3:7-18, by Ronald J. Allen
Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and...
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FORGIVENESS: Transformation And Deliverance — Repent And Help Each Other, by...
From Living the Sermon on the Mount When he says, “Take the log out of your eye,” Jesus is calling for repentance – acknowledging our own need for change, and actually making the change. The way of...
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HOMILY: Such Love, by Bonaventure
Her many sins have been forgiven her, for she has shown great love. (Luke 7:47) First of all, let us ask. . . . Dear friends in Christ Jesus: According to the tradition of sacred scripture, when the...
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PRAYER: The Night The Angels Covered Their Ears, a story
From Angels Unawares, by Megan McKenna It was the holiest night of the Jewish Year: Yom Kippur. The Ba’al Shem Tov was on his way to the synagogue to sing the Kol Nidre, the opening prayer. He was...
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LENT: The Memory Of God, by Richard Valantasis
From Centuries of Holiness One way to articulate a goal of human existence comes from a metaphor of the ascetical tradition: the remembrance of God. The concept is relatively simple: our task as...
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POETRY: At The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners, by John Donne
Divine Meditations: VII At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go, All whom the...
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POETRY: Adventures In New Testament Greek—Metanoia, by Scott Cairns
Repentance, to be sure, But of a species far less likely to oblige sheepish repetition. Repentance, you’ll observe, glibly bears the bent of thought revisited, and mind’s familiar stamp —a quaint,...
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POETRY: Repentance, by George Herbert
Lord, I confess my sin is great; Great is my sin. Oh! gently treat With thy quick flow’r, thy momentany bloom; Whose life still pressing Is one undressing, A steady aiming at a tomb. Man’s age is two...
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APOSTLES: Peter And Paul As Preachers Of Repentance, by Finn Damgaard
From Peter in Early Christianity As often noted, the concept of repentance plays a crucial role in Luke-Acts. In the gospel, the call to repentance occurs frequently in the preaching and teaching of...
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PSALMS: My Messy House, by Kathleen Norris
From: Amazing Grace When I’m working as an artist-in-residence at parochial schools, I like to read the psalms out loud to inspire the students, who are usually not aware that the snippets they sing at...
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POETRY: E Tenebris, by Oscar Wilde
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered...
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POETRY: The Road To Damascus: 6, by Tania Runyan
I have sinned, I said. I want eternal life, I said. That was the moment. I wanted nothing but God. I wanted a cheeseburger. I wanted nothing at all. Finally, I wanted it all settled. I folded by hands...
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