Prayers in Winter

[“God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction. . . .The highest and most perfect thing that a person can let go is that he lets...

[“You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth or in the water under...

O Lover, In my own lifetime stunning advances in cosmology and astrophysics have given rise to the inter-related terms “deep space” and “deep time.” That adjective is employed in response to the hitherto unimaginable...

O Lover, In the genre of Renaissance Christian mystics Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510) is distinguished from most others: she was the first married Christian woman to leave a mystical paper trail; engaged in all...

[“We need a new God.” This statement is attributed to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ (1881-1955) by Georgetown University’s John Haught in the major bio documentary “Teilhard: Visionary Scientist” which appeared in May of...

[“With his whole being (David) loved his Maker and daily had his praises sung . . .” (Sirach 47:8). The Book of Sirach was written in Hebrew by Yeshua ben Sira in Jerusalem (c.180...

[“Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord. Lord, hear my cry!” (Ps 130:1)] O Lover, While preparing for Mass on the 10th Sunday of ordinary time I was channeled by...

O Lover, Recently a clause has been coming to me, “Awaken Me to You,” which both escorts into prayer and helps to fend off distractions, even while pointing in a dedicated direction. While paradoxically...

O Lover, I begin ambivalently, raising this prayer-post with hesitancy. As starters, there is a pandemic-like pattern of self-deception in our society regarding both religion and spirituality. Ideational and ideological idolatries abound with the...

O Lover, Across recent decades I have both begun and concluded the day with the praying of Psalm 63:1-8. Recently, just before Mass actually, I was skewered by the line “For Your love is...