The Apophátic Heart
[Si comprehéndus, non est Deus (“The deity understood is not God”) is found in Sermon #117 of Augustine (354-430).] O Lover, Of late an emerging insight has been surfacing in my voyage into fuller...
Monthly Archive: January 2024
“A Feather on the Breath of God”
[The text and musical score of the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum composed in 1151-8 by Hildegard von Bingen, OSB (1098-1179) includes the phrase “I am a feather on the breath of God.”] O Lover,...
O Drawer!
O Lover, As well You know, I have occasionally flirted with wildly varying spirituality hypotheses involving everything. One such variant has been that You simply are not, at least no more than as projected...
“I Am the Lord and There is No Other”
O Lover, In chapters 43-45 of II Isaiah the prophet, engaging exiles in the Babylonian and Persian empires, has You repeatedly proclaiming that there are no gods but You. An example would be 45:18:...
Musings on “Night Vision”
O Lover, In the recent 2nd Sunday of Advent homilist Fr. Daniel Groody, CSC, an international authority on immigration and faculty/administrator at Notre Dame, cited an image which remains with me. He related how...