Whether it's to protect ourselves from life's harshness or an attempt to look good in the eyes of others, we often don the armor of invincibility. All the time our true self, loved into being by God, aches to be acknowledged rather than betrayed. Bill Wilson wrote, "We'll make it not because we're a better people -… Read More »Men’s Weekend Retreat
Thomas Merton defined Original Sin as "our need to know how we're doing," which makes our relationship with God a kind of scorecard. As we enter the Lenten Season, we remember what Jesus said to Marjory Kemp: "More pleasing to me than all your prayers, all your penances, and all your good works... is that… Read More »Ash Wednesday – God Can’t Count, But We Can and Do!
In his 1950 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, William Faulkner acknowledged the physical fear paralyzing humanity since the dropping of the atomic bomb five years prior: "The only question is when will I be blown up? There are no longer questions of the human spirit in conflict with itself." Faulkner issued a… Read More »Cormaria Film Series: The Old Verities & Truths of the Human Heart
"Love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die." Why do these words… Read More »Love, Death, Romance…Life in “Moonstruck”
"Come back to me with all your heart, don't let fear keep us apart." We sing these words from "Hosea" to welcome Lent each year. Why does fear loom so large in our relationship with God? God waits for us to need His mercy and love. Simone Weil reminds us, "Time is God's waiting as… Read More »Lenten Day of Renewal
