The Center for Contemplative Practice
A Lay Cistercian Looks at Spiritual Reality

September 2021

HOW DO I KNOW THAT CHRIST IS REAL AND NOT A FANTASY?

How do I know Christ lives in me and is not some fantasy of my imagination? If I make up my blogs and books about my Lectio Divina experiences of being in the presence of the Holy Spirit and just listen with the “ear of my heart,” isn’t that all made up by me? Yes, […]

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TEN WAYS I WON’T BE HELD HOSTAGE TO MY HUMANITY.

Good as humans are, original sin is the condition into which I am born, the imperfection of having to figure out what is right and wrong (knowledge of the tree of good and evil in Genesis 2-3), and the strength to be able to resist the allure of the pull of my animality into devolution. […]

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