Awash on shores of errant heart, Crystalline soldiers wend their depart. The battle o’er, the mend begun, Hovering Spirit break forth thy sun. You tugged as moon on ebbing tide, To etch and burrow as to chide, But than as swells of billowed lace, You left a smile of radiant grace. To purge my soul … Continue reading
Sunday Snippets–A Catholic Carnival
It’s time once again for Sunday Snippets. We are Catholic bloggers sharing weekly our best posts with one another. Join us to read and/or contribute. To participate, go to your blog and create a post titled Sunday Snippets–A Catholic Carnival. Make sure that the post links back to here, and leave a link to your snippets post on our host, RAnn’s, site, This, … Continue reading
Listening and Silent
It seems… I am always talking to You, That I am always with You, And have no doubt You are with me, Listening and silent. I am an endless monologue. You, hovering Spirit, Wordlessly eloquent Abide. You are Presence and Truth, Listening and silent, Thunderously silent, Save for the stirring of my heart, And the … Continue reading
Listening to Love
What are you saying, dear Lord? You Who speak with Your poor creature. Give voice to Your desire. Place Your lips to my ear. How do You speak? Will I hear a voice? See a vision? Feel Your stirrings in my soul? Will there be thunder as on Sinai Or the breeze of Carmel? … Continue reading
What or Who is the Holy Spirit?
These days you often hear a person claim to be “spiritual” rather than proclaim a religion or aspire to be “religious”. Religion it seems smacks of something suspect. “Spirit” and the “spiritual” are the stuff of spiritual devotees or wannabees. So what is this “spirit” that makes one “spiritual”, but not, God forbid, “religious”? Is … Continue reading
Two bodies, but a single spirit
From a sermon by Saint Gregory Nazianzen, bishop Two bodies, but a single spirit Basil and I were both in Athens. We had come, like streams of a river, from the same source in our native land, had separated from each other in pursuit of learning, and were now united again as if by plan, … Continue reading
