A Blog by LeRoy Friesen
O Lover, Last week signaled the end of liturgical year #2023. We have now crossed into Advent (“coming” or “arrival”), a four-sunday season characterized by anticipation, waiting, silence, attentiveness, penitential preparation, and hope of...
O Lover, On the penultimate Sunday of this church year the gospel reading was the parable of the talents (Mt 25:14-30). In contrast to a pair of servants who had doubled their five and...
O Lover, Last week, during my first night following a brief hospitalization, I had a dream. The experience was unique and arresting, both before and after waking. In the dream I was a participant...
[“Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. . . .(It is) an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it...
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...
[“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...
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...
[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....
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,...
O Lover, Most of us begin movement into more intentional faith for reasons strongly laced with self-interest, whether to escape gehénna, address existential meaninglessness, or respond to aging anxieties. In the early phases this...