Sermon ~ Getting to the heart of the Problem
Last week, I spoke about the need for us to seek forgiveness for past hurts and for the transgressions that we might have committed. I used the image of...
Tag: Spirituality
Confession and the Interior Life
In my last essay I wrote about how we need to find inner silence or inner peace. In order to do this we need to find the strength to open the door to the room ...
Untangling Our Spiritual Life
Yesterday I dropped something behind my computer, and when I went to retrieve it I noticed the unusually large tangle of wires and what not back there. All of ...
The sign of the Cross
Do not do anything without signing yourself with the sign of the Cross! When you depart on a journey, when you begin your work, when you go to study, when you a...
Temptation
The Temptation of Jesus We all know the scene, a person standing there trying to make the decision and on one shoulder stands the guy in the red suit and on the...
Cleaning
It seems I have spent the last two weeks cleaning my house. Here in the rectory it is just me and the dog so you would think it would not get that dirty, and I ...
The Gospel: Nourishment in the Wilderness
The Gospel was the daily bread of the desert solitaries. At the beginning of their monastic journey, as we see in the case of St. Antony the Great, the wo...
God Gave Us Dominion
Yesterday, before Liturgy at the nursing home, one of the folks who works there asked if I was planning a farm here at the monastery. I clearly outlined our pla...