The Good Heart

“A genuinely good heart is a heart that is open and alight with understanding. It listens to the sorrows of the world. Our society is wrong to think that happiness depends on fulfilling one's own wants and desires. That is why our society is so miserable...” (Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Into the Heart of Life, Snow Lion: 2011, Chapter 9 ‘Practicing the good heart’)

Sunday, April 19, 2015

The One Who Comes & Stands Among Us

What if...the next time you came here for the Eucharist, when it comes time to pass the Peace, you turn to the bearded man next to you, a...

Sunday, April 12, 2015

An Antidote to Hopelessness & Fear

On the Day of Resurrection last week: Easter Sunday, the greatest feast of the Church’s year, we celebrated Christ’s decisive victory ove...

Friday, April 3, 2015

The Friday Called "Good"

(From Hugo Rahner, "The Mystsery of the Cross", The Mysteries, Eranos Yearbooks 2 , Pantheon Books, 1955): " ...In m...

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Relationships or Idols?

The Hebrew expression for what we call the commandments literally means the ten words/sayings . Lent reminds us how easily you and I, jus...

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Supporting the "Weaknesses of Each of Us"

Almighty God, whose blessed Son was led by the Spirit to be tempted by Satan: Come quickly to help us who are assaulted by many tempt...

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Ash Wednesday

"In your great goodness, Lord, you have promised forgiveness to sinners, * that they may repent of their sin and be saved....

Monday, February 9, 2015

God's Bard

St. Bede writes in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People: " [t]here was in the Monastery of this Abbess a certain broth...

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Harry Allagree: Retired Episcopal parish priest and Regional Missioner; professed Oblate of the Order of Julian of Norwich

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