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, 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...

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Peter's Mother-in-law

" As soon as they left the synagogue, they entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law ...

Thursday, February 5, 2015

A New Creation In Christ

" Use creatures as they should be used: the earth, the sea, the sky, the air, the springs and the rivers. Give praise and glory t...

Monday, January 26, 2015

"For Me To Live Is Christ"

From a homily of St. John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople (407): "The one thing [Paul] feared, indeed dreaded, was to offend G...

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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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