Dec

27

Hesychia

December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“Hesychia is but the breathing of the Holy Sprit, a stability in the Spirit of the risen Christ that is attained only at the price of our entirely letting go: of allowing our complications, our resistances, and our narrow, twisted a priori to burned away under the desert sun.”
–A Carthusian, “The Wound of Love”, page [...]

Dec

27

Christmas in a POW Camp

December 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

by Sgt. Robert Grimes
 
 

CHRISTMAS REVERIE IN A GERMAN PRISON
STALAG LUFT IV 1944
Silvery moonbeams infiltrate the boarded windows of my prison room, Falling gently across the faces of my slumbering comrades, Like ghostly fingers of an Omnipresent God splashing His love and benediction across the barren walls and into each sad and hurting heart.
The freshly fallen [...]

Dec

27

Saint John the Apostle

December 27, 2007 | 2 Comments

St. John was a fisherman in Galilee. He was called to be an apostle with his brother, St. James. Jesus gave these sons of Zebedee the nickname, “sons of thunder.” St. John was the youngest apostle. He was dearly loved by the Lord. At the Last Supper, it was John who was permitted to lean [...]