Monthly Archives: August 2004

Below you will find two lists from a book I’m reading by Matthew the Poor. I’m a “lists person.” When I was doing my clinical work my fellow chaplains said that when I died I could check that off my … Continue reading →

1. We should not see austerity, or asceticism, as an end in itself. Neither should we delight in practicing it to the exclusion of everything else. By doing so we are only allowing it to distract us from progressing toward … Continue reading →

1. Never rely on your own wisdom or might or on human strength in any of your works. Otherwise, your mind will become dim and your insight blurred, thus blocking the way for grace to enter you and show you … Continue reading →

It was only a dream. Yet, for an eternal moment I felt as if I were the only person in the universe, floating through a vast darkness — no light, anywhere. Then, off in the distance, I saw a blinding … Continue reading →

[T]he union of man with God, or deification, is a legitimate aim to seek. This is due to the preexisting union between divinity and humanity in the incarnation. It is Christ, then, who has set it before us as an … Continue reading →