Tuesday of Holy Week
Today's Life-Line:
How do we live by faith, in love, with hope, in the face of the incompatibility of the luminous mystery and the sorrowful mystery of human existence?
How do we live responsibly while fully Read more [...]
Ash Wednesday
Receive this cross of ash upon your brow
Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross;
The forests of the world are burning now
And you make late repentance for the loss.
But all the trees of God would clap their hands,
The Read more [...]
What is hope?
It is a presentiment that imagination is more real
And reality less real than it looks. ~ Rubem Alves
So much is in the bud. ~ Denise Levertov
As stated in my reflection “Pensées – Advent Pondering 2,” Advent is a season Read more [...]
All religious traditions have at least this in common:
the articulated perception of a gap between what is and what should be;
between reality as actuality and reality as an ideal. ~ Lawrence Cunningham
HOPEFULNESS
When I was young, from time to time Read more [...]
ADVENT
It is not true that creation and the human family are doomed to destruction and loss --
This is true: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
Today's Life-Line is"
TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance to it.
~ Rubem Alves Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
Hope has two beautiful daughters.
Their names are anger and courage:
Anger at the way things are,
And courage to see
that they do not remain the way they are.
~ St. Augustine
P.S. You may have noticed, as of late, Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
The joys and hopes, the grief and anguish of the people of our time, especially those who are poor or afflicted, are the joys and hopes, the grief and anguish, of the followers of Christ as well.
~ Gaudium et Spes, Vatican Read more [...]