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Problem
In Thoughts in Solitude, Thomas Merton writes: In our age everything has to be a “problem.” Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves. Merton…
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The World Upside Down
The man who went into the cave was not the man who came out again; in that sense he was almost as different as if he were dead…He looked at the world as differently from other men as if he had come out of that dark hole walking on his hands. — GK Chesterton With…
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Few Words
Today, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, as I read the Gospel and worked into some lectio divina, I was struck, not by a particular word or phrase, but by how few words Mary speaks in the dialogue with the angel Gabriel. Mary speaks three sentences to the angel’s eight. Mary speaks 30 words…
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Christmas: The encounter between our desire and God’s response
A quiet ache — a nostalgia for the infinite — resides deep in every human heart. We tend to forget about it. The noise and activity of our lives drowns it out. Our masks cover it up. Our attempts to control and curate every aspect of life dry it up. We pack our schedules to…
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Brad Bursa 