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’)

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Christmas Eve

In the Ukraine, it is said, there's a legend about a woman who was too poor to decorate her Christmas tree, but shared the warmth of h...

Sunday, December 21, 2014

4th Week of Advent

He’d just finished a long teaching session in the synagogue. She’d been sitting quietly toward the back of the room, taking in all he’d s...

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

3rd Week of Advent

In this third week of Advent the Church offers us Scripture texts which indicate the joy of anticipating the coming of Jesus. The penite...

Sunday, December 7, 2014

2nd Week of Advent

Last week Advent was described as a time of waiting in the midst of suffering, pain, frustration and inadequacy as a community of hurt. Ne...

Thursday, December 4, 2014

1st Week of Advent

An anonymous poet has written: " I saw the sign on the highway ‘Prepare to meet thy God.’ But when I got a little closer There were ...

Monday, November 24, 2014

Something Worth Doing

" Even if a man should be detected in some sin, my brothers, the spiritual ones among you should quietly set him back on the right path...

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The Soldier Saint

It’s interesting that the soldier/saint honored today in the traditional denominations, St. Martin of Tours, was what we moderns would call ...

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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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