Hymn to God

O Thou who art beyond all, What else may we rightly call Thee? How shall I extol Thee, Who art prominent over all? How can any word praise Thee, When words cannot name Thee? Alone unutterable, Thou art the cause of all that can be spoken. How can the mind consider Thee, When no...
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Waiting and Unknowing

Advent [meaning “coming”], to the Church Fathers, was the right naming of the season when light and life are fading. They urged the faithful to set aside four weeks to fast, give, and pray—all ways to strip down, to let the bared soul recall what it knows beneath its fear of the...
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Everything is Sacred

To repeat: by virtue of the Creation and, still more, of the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. On the contrary, everything is sacred to the person who can distinguish that portion of chosen being which is subject to Christ’s drawing power...
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The Healing Touch

Touch, yes, touch, speaks the wordless words of love. We receive so much touch when we are babies and so little when we are adults. Still, in friendship, touch often gives more life than words. A friend’s hand stroking our back, a friend’s arm resting on our shoulder,...
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An Anticipation of our Glory!

From the following fact we can prove that, many as were the actions that he repeatedly promised us that he would perform in due season, he even in part anticipated the appointed time in the performance of them, for our edification, that we might be fully convinced that whatsoever...
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