buy gabapentin illegally I was struck by the diocese of New York removing from the Easter Vigil the reading of Abraham sacrificing Isaac; presumably because the story scandalizes nice good people who want religion to look hunky-dory and sweet. But obviously, if God cannot work through horror and crime and sin and cruelty then He can’t be terribly […]
Category Archives: The Inner Life.
Jung on the Law versus Grace.
18-Apr-10Temptation (Ctd.)
09-Feb-10On my mind as I consider avoidance. A second attempt, to clarify the thought: The essence of every temptation is that it contains within itself the evasion of a fact.
The Temptation.
06-Feb-10The evasion of a fact is always the real temptation.
Paulus, the first hermit.
20-Jan-10In Latin first (from the breviary), then my free translation after. “Paulus, eremitarum auctor et magister, apud inferiorem Thebaidem natus, cum quindecim esset annorum, orbatus parentibus est. Qui postea declinandae causa persecutionis Decii et Valeriani, et Deo liberius inserviendi, in eremi speluncam se contulit: ubi, palma ei victum et vestitum praebente, vixit ad centesimum et […]
Stopped me in my tracks when I read it…
20-Jan-10“The most coveted gift of the Devil is the power of revenge.” – Helen Luke Ugh. How terrible it is that so few of us have lives short enough not to know the meaning of this.
Humor and Proportion.
15-Jan-10I was speaking to a friend recently, in the presence of his wise wife, and the topic of conversation turned to the successes or failures of our high school education. We went to the same Jesuit school, and complaining about Jesuits is a traditional theme for learned conversation. My friend lambasted the education he received. […]
Four Minutes With Richard Rohr.
29-Dec-09Related to the Sullivan video I posted a few months ago about learning he had HIV.
Ye Manticke Apples of Ye Catskilles.
22-Nov-09Last year the local sages were abuzz with predictions of a snowy winter, for the apple-trees, to which vegetable they attribute the gift of prophecy, were loaded down with much fruit, and “did bowwe their heades to Lord Winter.” I don’t know if there is any correlation, but I will say that it was a […]
Victim Mentality.
03-Nov-09I distrust anyone who attempts to portray themselves as a victim. Some people are victims, certainly, but a managed, well-researched self-presentation as such is almost always a sign of some kind of derangement. Especially when you’re one of the most powerful people in the most powerful country in the world, of course. http://www.archny.org/news-events/columns-and-blogs/blog—the-gospel-in-the-digital-age/index.cfm?i=14042 We have […]
The Deeper Meaning of Parenting.
07-May-10http://garrygolden.com/css/ One of the questions that has most been with me the past two years is this: If I had a son or daughter, would I have anything to really teach them? Would I have gathered from my years on earth some kind of life-wisdom to pass on to them? Or would all my knowledge be […]