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, September 7, 2014

How To Deal With A Sticky Wicket

Ezekiel spoke his prophecies in the historical context of the 6th cent. B. C. exile of the Jewish people to Babylon. Nebuchadrezzar II had...

Sunday, August 31, 2014

3 Points & A Story

There’s a perennial saying that’s passed around by seminarian and clergy/preacher types, in a variety of forms, that a good sermon general...

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Someone To Love Me

(Drawing by Sr. Therese, OJN) Six years ago I took a two-week Spanish language immersion course. Our maestra , Lydia, was a charmi...

Monday, July 28, 2014

Matthew 13: Parables of the Reign of God

St. Matthew’s Gospel, Chapter 13, has shown us, for the past two weeks, and again today, specifically how Jesus, through the use of sim...

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Of Parables & Ourselves

Parables are meant to get people to think. The bottom line is that we don’t interpret parables, so much as parables interpret us . Para...

Monday, June 30, 2014

The Holy-Making Gift

Today’s simple, but beautiful, Collect in the Lutheran Book of Worship prays: “ O God, you direct our lives by your grace, and your w...

Sunday, June 8, 2014

The Day of Pentecost - Día de Pentecostés

Pentecost, one of three major Old Testament celebrations, was originally a day of thanksgiving and rejoicing for the wheat harvest; later ...

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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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