The Transfiguration

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, one of the more important (if sometimes overlooked) feasts of the liturgical year. This event definitively revealed the divinity of Christ. It appears in the three synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17:1–9, Mark 9:2–8, Luke 9:28–36). Two of the witnesses refer to it in their writings, but they do not tell […]

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The Way

This is an excerpt from my journal, dated ten years ago today. God’s communications with us humans are often subtle. As the Prophet Elijah discovered, the Voice of God is often to be found in the whispering wind (1 Kings 19:11-13). Sometimes, however, God reaches out and whacks us upside the head, either physically or mentally. Often times, I tell […]

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We Don’t Talk: Saint Bruno and Silence

Stat crux dum volvitur orbis – “The Cross is steady while the world turns” (motto of the Carthusian Order) Saint Bruno (d. 1101), whose feast day is today, famously founded the contemplative Carthusian Order. The Carthusians are hermits living in a cloistered quasi-community, famously adhering to a vow of silence, and who to this day celebrate their own distinctive liturgical rite. Source, […]

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The Transfiguration

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, one of the more important (if sometimes overlooked) feasts of the liturgical year. This event definitively revealed the divinity of Christ. It appears in the three synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17:1–9, Mark 9:2–8, Luke 9:28–36). Two of the witnesses refer to it in their writings, but they do not tell […]

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Transfiguration

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, one of the more important (if sometimes overlooked) feasts of the liturgical year. This event definitively revealed the divinity of Christ. It appears in the three synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17:1–9, Mark 9:2–8, Luke 9:28–36). Two of the witnesses refer to it in their writings, but they do not tell […]

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