Bogosity

Bishop Spong recently toured down under and although he is not everybody’s cup of tea, he is able to communicate with an audience that would rather see churches disappear off the face of the earth.

Like it or not, there are many scholars picking over the ancient texts of the Bible with a critical eye to [...]

Brother William’s most recent blog post dicusses St Francis, nature, the environmental crisis, mysticism, the meaning of life and of course, qantum physics (I challenge William to write a blog post that doesn’t mention qantum physics).

The Divine Universe » THE HEAVENLY FOOL

Here’s a few bits that I really liked:

The resurgence of mysticism in the West, [...]

Just before Christmas (or was it after?), James handed me My Life with the Saints by James Martin, SJ. For some reason I also started reading it even though I already had a million other books I wanted to get through. I have a vague passing interest in saints and at the [...]

October 4th was St Francis day and the SSF brothers at St Philips celebrated with a service and dinner which brought together a number of Francis loving types from around the traps.

Sheena emurled me this article which gives a brief overview of St Francis and why he is such an inspiration to a great many [...]

I don’t have enough time in my life. I know there are supposed to be gaps in my day where I can contemplate the infinite but instead I seem to always have the metaphorical dogs snapping at my heals.

Sheena has lent me a few Roald Dahl books. I kind of wish I’d read [...]

Catching up on some Compass. I thought this was an interesting snippet. The whole transcript is pretty interesting because there are other miracles mentioned which I find pretty fascinating. Are they really possible? I think it’s interesting the way the Nun views the woman’s reliance on signs in the following conversation:

Compass [...]

Today’s saint is:

St. Hesychius of Jerusalem – Saint of the Day – American Catholic

His words on the Eucharist, written centuries ago, speak to us today: “Keep yourselves free from sin so that every day you may share in the mystic meal; by doing so our bodies become the body of Christ.”

Kind of ties in with [...]