Farther into Mystagógia
[“(You have) self-disclosed to us the Mystery (Mystérion) of Your will, as purposed in the Christ, to be realized when the time was full (kaíros): to draw together into a headship everything (anakephalaiósasthai ta...
Author: ambushee
The Glories of the Giraffe
[“(I)f ever I could claim to have seen the face of God, it was in the colossal faces of those giraffes” (Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes [2021]).] [“For (God) brought things into being in...
The Agnostic Dimension Revisited
[“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the son, but the Father alone” (Mt 24:36).] O Lover, The current religious aspect of our society weights heavily...
“This is the Wood of the Cross”
O Lover, As I recall, I first participated in the veneration of the wood of the cross in the 1991 Tríduum liturgy as I was nearing the culmination of my own RCIA journey. A...
Déus Méus et Ómnia!
O Lover, Across the last decade I have periodically been drawn to this meditational prayer mantra attributed to Your poveréllo, Francis of Assisi (c.1182-1226). Curiously, the impact of this cryptic phrase has seemed to...
Source and Summit
O Lover, In the Lenten seasons of this my November I am being shown that my most important “giving up” is not regarding this or that, but reductionist depictions of You. At no time...
The “Living Water” Well at the Center of Everything
O Lover, The gospel reading for the third Sunday of Lent (Jn 4:3-43) describes the encounter of Jesus with a Samaritan just outside the city of Sychar (now Nablus). The case can be made...
Transfiguration as Mystical
O Lover, The gospel reading at the head of the second week of Lent was the Marcan take on the transfiguration of the Christ (9:2-10). Ever within Your Presence, whether with or without my...
May the Lover “Submerge You”!
[“May God make known to you, . . .who he is and how he deals with his servants, and especially with his handmaids—and may he submerge you in him. Where the abyss of his...
“When Gods Die”
[Jack Welch, OCarm, When Gods Die: An Introduction to John of the Cross. Paulist Press, 1990.] O Lover, Part of my encounter in the mid-1990s with the spirituality of Juan de la Cruz was...