Magi as Models
(1/8/23) O Lover, We recently celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany, the self-manifestation (“showcasing”) of Your Euangélion (“Good News”) to all the nations. The gospel reading was from Matthew (2:1-12) tracing the trek of...
Category: Prayer
Synesthesia as Sacrament?
O Lover, Recently I have been becoming aware of another of Your startling and exquisite gifts: synesthesia (syn[“together”] + esthésia [“perception”]). Synesthetes experience one or more of the senses through eitheryet another sense and/or...
Music as Muse
(12/17/22) O Lover, In mid-Advent my wife and I attended a concert in the Basilica of Your Sacred Heart on the campus of the University of Notre Dame featuring faculty and graduate students in...
Of Carols & Capaciousness
(12/17/22) [“And all flesh shall see it together” (from Handel’s “And the Glory of the Lord,” Messiah [Is 40:5]).] O Lover, Having finally arrived in Christmastide, I acknowledge yet again how profoundly paradoxical is...
Kintsugi & Advent
(12/11/22) O Lover, Within forty-eight hours last week I had my first and second encounters with the Japanese art of kintsugi: the repair of damaged pottery via the application of gold lacquer to the...