Thomas Merton
“After my first Mass I understood perfectly and for the first time in my life that nothing else in the world is important except to love God and to serve Him with simplicity and joy. I saw most clearly...
View ArticleNunc Coepi
“For two years I have been a hermit and have not appreciated the fact, or lived as one. Nunc coepi. Father Barnabas Mary, the Passionist in Chicago, wrote to me about Father Charbel who lived as a...
View ArticleThe Beautiful Isolation
Cape Moreton Lighthouse(Garry – http://www.visionandimagination.com) “The most remarkable recent epidemiologic finding relates to migrants: Some fall ill with schizophrenia not only at higher rates...
View ArticleThe Voice of God is Heard in Paradise
The Voice of God is heard in Paradise: “What was vile has become precious. What is now precious was never vile. I have always known the vile as precious: for what is vile I know not at all. “What...
View ArticleThe Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder – NYTimes.com
The Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder – NYTimes.com After the depression is suffered and endured, one is never the same. After each episode, I come out losing a sense of my many selves. And...
View ArticleOn Compunction
In the language of medieval asceticism, the clear-sighted recognition and mature acceptance of our own limitation is called “compunction.” Compunction is a special grace, an insight into our own...
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