Monthly Archive: October 2023

Excarnation or Incarnation?

Excarnation or Incarnation?

O Lover, Of the myriad of issues punctuating the faith journey of this trekker, one repeatedly presents itself as primary; the relationship of You, Source and Fount, with the cosmic effluence of which I...

Aging as Separation or Link?

Aging as Separation or Link?

[“The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction” (Meister Eckhart, OP (c.1260-1328]).] [“Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing that...

Ave Maria

Ave Maria

 O Lover, Well You know that Marian issues have sometimes stuck in my craw. Entering the Catholic orb in mid-life, I came predisposed. As a child and youth I was taught that Catholics worshipped...

In Gratitude for Murray Rogers (1917-2006)

In Gratitude for Murray Rogers (1917-2006)

[Mary V. T. Cattan’s Pilgrimage of Awakening: the Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2016) is a rich study of an Anglican missionary couple who went to India in 1948....

Unítas Déi and Time

Unítas Déi and Time

O Lover, My periodic inclination to “play god” notwithstanding, I am a finite, a creature, one not self-generating, self-sustaining, or self-culminating. This means, among other things, that I am delimited, whether bedazzlingly or confiningly,...