DAILY DEVOTIONAL Monday, April 16, 2018 Why do we need to examine ourselves? Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me and then lead … Continue reading
DISPATCHES FROM FR. CHARITAS April 15, 2018 IT’S RAINING My time of contemplation is softened by a gentle rain. My soul loves gentle rains but raging rains they stress me. I love the pattering of the raindrops on the water … Continue reading
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DAILY DEVOTIONAL Sunday, April 15, 2018 How does a soul deal with the rage within and the rage in the world about them? A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly … Continue reading
DISPATCHES FROM FR. CHARITAS Saturday, April 14, 2018 THE PRIDE THAT BLINDS US Prejudice is almost everywhere, even here in the Hills of Jade in the place and moments when they are not thoroughly sacred. Racial prejudice, national prejudice, religious … Continue reading
DAILY DEVOTIONAL Saturday, April 14, 2018 Will we ever have peace? Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. – Matthew 5:9 I am a soul prone to flashes of anger, yet still, I am a … Continue reading
Dispatches from Fr. Charitas Friday, April 13, 2018 I believe in visions. Not the visions that are projections on the mind as if holy hallucinations, but the visions that seem to make reality glow. As I gaze at the sunflowers … Continue reading
Friday, April 13, 2018 How does the Christian come to know the Truth? Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” – … Continue reading
DISPATCHES FROM FR. CHARITAS Thursday, April 12, 2018 Though the words of Christ endure, those words are so often neglected. Christ said it this way, “Heaven and earth may pass away, but MY words will endure forever.”- Matthew 24:35 And … Continue reading
Thursday, April 12, 2018 As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a … Continue reading
Tuesday, April 11, 2018 Jesus was a Middle Eastern soul, a Semitic, a Hebrew, yet we have so Europeanize Him that we imagine Him speaking in English. Yet the Jesus I grew up with was not Middle-Eastern at all and … Continue reading
Into the Sacred Hills of Jade 