Sunday, December 8, 2019

this little point of nothingness and absolute poverty

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  This peculiar galaxy pair is called Arp 116. Arp 116 is composed of a giant elliptical galaxy known as Messier 60 (or M60) and a muc...
Saturday, December 7, 2019

wilderness: abandonment to the silence of God

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Fr. Alfred Delp SJ "The wilderness has a necessary function in life.  'Abandonment' one of my friends called it and the w...
Friday, December 6, 2019

Mary-darkness, faith's walled place

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Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1897 Advent, by Jessica Powers I live my Advent in the womb of Mary. And on one night when a gre...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

the vanity of anti-silence (Considerations for the time of Christmas)

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Fr. Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) From a cycle of six largely unknown meditations Jesuit Father Jorge Mario Bergoglio gave in a ...
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Salus Populi Romani

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icon of  Salus Populi Romani  in the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome.  Recounted by pious tradition to have been painted by St....

the living things sing terribly that only the present is eternal

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T he myriad faint stars that comprise the Antlia Dwarf galaxy are more than four million light-years from Earth, but this NASA/ESA Hubble...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

The world is greater than the burden it bears.

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"The Great Silence", from  Neither Use Nor Ornament "The world is greater than the burden it bears, and life is more...