Lent

Lent:  forty days granted us in which we marvel at a love too great for words.

 Br. Roger of Taize

Simple Prayer

When the mystery of God become tangible through the simple beauty of symbols, when it is not smothered by too many words, then prayer with others... awakens us to heaven's joy on earth.

Br. Roger of Taize

Prophets

The Word of God comes to a person and makes that person a prophet. The prophet in turn discloses the Word received. The prophet, under the power of the Word, names ways of living that must be changed. The prophet announces the particular behaviors that are required right now as a response to a new age that is promised. And the new age is proclaimed in fantasized images of considerable particularity.

Bernard J. Lee S.M. Jesus and the Metaphors… p. 116

To pray
Is to know how to stand still
And to dwell upon a word.

Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

What do most of us know about the substance of words? Estranged from the soil of the soul, our words do not grow as fruits of insights, but are found as sapless clichés, refuse in the backyard of intelligence. To the man of our age nothing is as familiar and nothing as trite as words… We all live in them, feel in them, think in them, but failing to uphold their independent dignity, to respect their power and weight, they turn waif, elusive – a mouthful of dust…

Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972