Young and Old

Every scribe who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of Heaven is like a householder who brings out from his storeroom new things as well as old. (Mt. 13:52)

I was brought up in the old traditions, but listening to younger people and sharing in their private struggles rids me of certain reflexes of fear. Without these thousands of young people here on the hill, where would I be now, in spite of my desire to be open.

Br. Roger of Taize

Knowing our desires

“In the basic decisions of life, God moves persons to will freely whatever He wills for them.”

Francis Kelly Nemeck and Marie Therese Coombs

Identity and Integrity

“Identity lies in the intersection of the diverse forces that make up my life and integrity lies in relating those forces in ways that bring me wholeness and life rather than fragmentation and death.”

• • • • Parker Palmer

Seeking the Star

“We hunger for truth, we thirst to drink beauty, we yearn to celebrate, we seek to delight, we stretch out to love and to be loved. That is why anything less than everything is not enough.”

Thomas Dubay, S.M.

Desire

“The language of souls is their desire.”
Gregory of Nyssa

Desire

Desire for vision: Faith.
Desire for Possesion: Hope.
Desire for love: Charity.
By expectation, God increases desire.
By desire, he empties out souls.
In emptying them out, he makes them more capable of receiving him.”

Augustine, Commentary on 1 John