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Two Big Smiles

By in Family

This past Saturday evening Fran and I took Rhiannon to see her favorite musician, Cindy Lou Harrington, in concert at a wonderful little pizza place called Shorty’s in Tucker, GA (unlike most pizzerias, Shorty’s has several vegan options on their menu). Before the show began, Cindy Lou stopped by our table and posed for a [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · August 23, 2011

Tallis in Atlanta

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Guess where I’ll be tomorrow afternoon? At the “Labor of Love” Choral Concert, featuring music by Vaughan Williams, Wagner, Brahms, and — the pièce de résistance — Thomas Tallis’ 40-part motet, Spem in Alium. According to the website promoting the concert, this motet has never been performed in Georgia before (it’s not easy to put [...]

Read full story · Comments { 1 } · August 12, 2011

Quote for the Day

By in Christian mysticism, Mysticism, Mystics, Spirituality

God does not dwell in a heart that’s confined, and a heart is only as big as the love it holds: in the great heart of Poverty God has room to dwell. — Jacopone da Todi, quoted in An Anthology of Christian Mysticism edited by Harvey D. Egan.

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · November 21, 2010

Quote for the Day

By in Spirituality

Men have not become Trappists merely out of a hope for peace in the next world: something has told them, with unshakable conviction, that the next world begins in this world and that heaven can be theirs now, very truly, even though imperfectly, if they give their lives to the one activity which is the [...]

Read full story · Comments { 1 } · November 6, 2010

Quote for the Day

By in Christian mysticism, Spirituality

Only in love can I find You, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which makes me a prisoner [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · October 29, 2010

To love many things…

By in Spirituality

The other day my co-worker, Robin, with whom I carpool, and I had a deep and philosophical conversation… about the weather. “This is such a great time of year,” I enthused, about September in Georgia. “Cool in the mornings, and yet still plenty of warmth in the afternoons.” She nodded, as I went on, “You [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · September 17, 2010

Live, Laugh, Love, Lectio

By in Spirituality

This week I led a retreat at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit on the theme of “Live, Laugh, Love.” It’s an interesting topic to explore in the setting of a Trappist monastery, known for its silent atmosphere and ethos of Cistercian simplicity. But the small group of retreatants and I have enjoyed plenty of [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · September 16, 2010
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