07 November 2015
A Contemplative Moment: on Contemplation and Detachment
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 2:48 PM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment, Detachment, detachment and love, Thomas Merton
20 October 2015
A Contemplative Moment: On Distractions
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 12:52 PM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment, Distractions, Prayer, Thomas Merton
03 August 2015
A Contemplative Moment: Our Entire Availability
You will always remember how privileged you are that God should love your soul, and as time goes on you will appreciate this all the more. . . . Humble and detached, go into the desert. For God awaiting you there, you bring nothing worth having, except your entire availability. . . .He is calling you to live on friendly terms with him, nothing else.
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 9:26 PM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment
06 July 2015
A Contemplative Moment: Listening to the Word
He is the Word, yet as man he had to listen, and still does listen, to the Word that he is. His listening was made perfect in his Easter reality where obedience meant only union, freedom, and joy. This is what the gift of the Spirit is, this consciousness of identification with the Word within: this is being a child of God, and we cannot but cry, "Abba!" Like Jesus you have to listen and listen. It will take you all your life to hear the Father's word of love for you; indeed, it will take you all your eternity.
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 10:53 PM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment, imago Dei, Man as Language Event, obedience, Sister Maria Boulding OSB, True and False selves
23 June 2015
A Contemplative Moment: On Simplicity
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 6:15 PM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment, Letting go Letting God, Simplicity
20 May 2015
A Contemplative Moment: The World of Silence
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 4:29 PM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment
18 May 2015
A Contemplative Moment: Entering the Silence
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 12:06 AM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment, Robert Sardello, Silence -- Entering the
19 September 2014
A Contemplative Moment: Finding the Face of God in Others
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 11:27 AM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment
03 August 2014
A Contemplative Moment: The Silence of Solitude
"Solitude has nothing to do with existential neurosis, but is rather a creative search for the flame of love that burns in God's heart. . . .What occupies the center. . .is the existential solitude of God himself. This is what the human heart wants to absorb and this is where it wants to rest. The eremitic solitude is in no case a fruitless and spiritually empty isolation, a cold indifference toward people and the world, or a selfish passiveness. Just the opposite, it is a space of redemption, full of spiritual life and meant to accept and change any human distress, sorrow, or fear."
Fr Cornelius Wencel, Er Cam: The Eremitic Life
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 1:51 PM
12 July 2014
A Contemplative Moment: Love is not Coercive
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 4:10 PM
02 July 2014
A Contemplative Moment: On Silence and Solitude
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 12:21 PM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment, Cornelius Wencel Er Cam, Silence and Solitude
10 June 2014
A Contemplative Moment: On the Experience of Existential Dread
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 11:23 PM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment, Dread, Existential Dread
01 June 2014
A Contemplative Moment: The Still Point
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 7:46 PM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment, The Sill Point
28 May 2014
A Contemplative Moment: The Silence of Solitude
Posted by Sr. Laurel M. O'Neal, Er. Dio. at 7:26 PM
Labels: A Contemplative Moment, silence of solitude, solitude, Thomas Merton