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I am a Professed Lay Cistercian, retired from life, former US Army Chaplain, Ordained RC Priest (Laicized), who will spend whatever time He has left seeking God where I am and as I am so that I can move from self to God.

Posts by thecenterforcontemplativepractice:

• WHERE DOES GOOD AND EVIL LIVE?
• HOW DO I KNOW THAT CHRIST IS REAL AND NOT A FANTASY?
• TEN WAYS I WON’T BE HELD HOSTAGE TO MY HUMANITY.
• THE MARTYRDOM OF ORDINARY LIVING: The high cost of fidelity.
• NAVIGATING THE COMPLEXITIES OF CONVERSIO MORAE.
• THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE: PARADIGM SHIFTS THAT ADD DEPTH OF MEANING TO MY VIEW OF REALITY
• MRS. MURPHY KNOWS
• CHRIST AS MYSTIC HERO: The Longing of the Human Mind and Heart for Resonance.
• CAPACITAS DEI: Transformational Spirituality in the School of Love.
• FIVE LEVELS OF DEPTHS IN MEDITATION.
• HERESIES CONDEMNED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: I, THE HERETIC.
• DON’T LET THESE BEHAVIORS AND IDEOLOGIES TAKE YOU HOSTAGE!
• CHRIST AS MYSTIC HERO: THE HERO RESTORES RESONANCE TO THE DISSONANCE OF HUMAN NATURE. Part I–The context.
• CHRIST AS MYSTIC HERO: WATCH JOSEPH CAMPBELL ON THE IMPORTANCE OF MYTH IN OUR HUMAN PROGRESSION.
• REFLECTIONS ON NEW WINE IN OLD SKINS I: New paradigms happen because of new assumptions.
• ORIGINAL SIN: The Noise of Divine Nothingness.
• WHAT IS THE ACHILLES HEEL OF ATHEISTS?
• I MISS PAUL HARVEY.
• ORIGINAL SIN: The background noise of existing as a human.
• LISTENING FOR LENTEN TRANSFORMATION
• REFLECTIONS ON NEW WINE IN OLD SKINS I: New paradigms happen because of new assumptions.
• YOUR CATHOLIC HERITAGE: Think deeper and grow exponentially.
• THE POWER OF ONE WORD V: My one word Lectio Divina technique.
• THE ENIGMA OF THE EUCHARIST
• A LENTEN ODYSSEY
• THE SITUATIONAL CATHOLIC (or any other human)
• HOW THE MAGISTER NOSTER HELPS ME GROW DEEPER IN MY HUMANITY: II.
• THE THREE MOST TERRIFYING WORDS OF SCRIPTURES.
• CONVERSIO MORAE: Growing from false self to true self
• HOW THE MAGISTER NOSTER HELPS ME GROW DEEPER IN MY HUMANITY.
• MORE BITS AND PIECES: Fragments from my basket of loaves and fishes.
• BITS AND PIECES: Random thoughts from Lectio Divina meditations.
• ANTICIPATION AND CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE
• I HAVE TO DIG DEEP INTO MY HUMAN NATURE TO UNCOVER THAT NEXT LEVEL OF EVOLUTION, ADOPTION.
• THE POWER OF ONE WORD IV: YES or NO
• FIVE ADDITIONAL VERTICAL, CONTEMPLATIVE TOOLS TO KEEP MY FOCUS ON CHRIST’S PRESENCE
• SEEKING WORDS OF WISDOM… LET IT BE.
• THE AWARENESS OF THE LIMITS OF MY HUMANITY
• St. Issac the Syrian: How to deny yourself.
• FIVE VERTICAL, CONTEMPLATIVE TOOLS TO KEEP MY FOCUS ON CHRIST’S PRESENCE
• ARE YOU FOLLOWING THE ENIGMATIC PATH OF THE WAR?
• A LAY CISTERCIAN’S NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION: MAKING ALL THINGS NEW
• WHAT I DO WHEN WHAT I REACH FOR IS BEYOND MY GRASP…AND IT IS OKAY.
• THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY FINAL PROFESSION AS A LAY CISTERCIAN: FIVE LESSONS THAT SHAPE MY LIFE
• LOVE’S GREATEST GIFT
• YOUR HERITAGE: CATENA AURIA BY ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
• TEN THINGS I DON’T CONTROL, so… I DON’T WORRY ABOUT THEM.
• NEW SKINS FOR NEW WINE: A DEEPER DISCUSSION ABOUT OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE TRUTH–II
• TEN QUESTIONS THAT I HAD TO ANSWER BEFORE I DIED.
• YOUR HERITAGE: Outside the Church, there is no salvation.
• WHAT SEYMOUR BERNSTEIN TAUGHT ME ABOUT MY LAY CISTERCIAN WAY
• THE POWER OF ONE WORD III: Gratitude
• THE POWER OF ONE WORD II: Jesus, Mary, Joseph, St. Michael
• PROVERBS FROM A LAY CISTERCIAN TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• THE SIXTY SECOND CATHOLIC: Love and movement from mind to heart.
• …AND THEN WHAT?
• WHAT DOES REALITY LOOK LIKE? A micro and macrocosmic perspective that is critical to spiritual thinking.
• WHAT CAN ONE PERSON DO AGAINST THE PERSISTENT PERVERSION OF MORALS?
• READING RESOURCES FOR RETIREES AND THINKERS
• THE MARTYRDOM OF EVERYDAY LIVING: Five Scenarios played out in my life
• PERSPECTIVE: Looking for meaning about my humanity from space
• NEW WINE IN OLD SKINS
• THE GOD WHISPERER: WE CAN’T KNOW WHO GOD IS, SO HOW DO WE KNOW WHO GOD IS?
• THE PROBLEM WITH UNIVERSALISM AND NIHILISM
• LOSING FAITH MIGHT BE EASIER THAN YOU THINK
• CRITICAL THINKING IMPLICATIONS FROM A WEARY TRAVELER OF LIFE’S MOVEMENTS AND COMPLEXITIES
• THE EQUILIBRIUM OF NATURE
• ADDING A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO YOUR SPIRITUAL PROGRESSION: Building the School of Love
• THE INEVITABILITY OF NATURE
• THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF MAKING THE WRONG CHOICE ABOUT WHAT IS GOOD.
• SAINT FOR ALL SEASONS: Charles de Foucauld.
• SYNCRONICITY WITH GOD
• THE ART OF WAITING FOR CHRIST: The God whisperer
• FIVE THINGS THAT WILL KILL YOU…AND YOU WON’T EVEN SEE IT COMING
• TRANSFORMING TIME
• SPIRITUAL APES: The struggle to be spiritual.
• A LAY CISTERCIAN REFLECTS ON HIS RENEWAL OF LAY CISTERCIAN FINAL PROMISES
• THREE DIVORCES YOU WON’T BELIEVE HAPPENED
• FRACTURED FABLES: The winemaker
• BEING A LAY CISTERCIAN: A PENITENTIAL PERSON
• PRAYERS EVERY CATHOLIC SHOULD SAY, IF NOT MEMORIZE.
• THIS IS YOUR HERITAGE: Be careful not to discount it.
• MY SIX STEPS TO ETERNITY
• ALL REALITY, BLESS THE LORD.
• THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: Private Revelation
• DON’T FORGET TO USE YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL TO KEEP AWAY THE EVIL ONE
• THE LORD OF THE DANCE: Taking dancing lessons from the Holy Spirit
• WHEN ALL WORDS FAIL: YOU MUST BE JEWISH TO APPRECIATE THIS MELODY
• DON’T SPURN YOUR HERITAGE FROM GOD
• THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST: The hero comes home.
• DON’T SPURN YOUR HERITAGE: Hymns of the Early Church
• OUTSIDE THE CHURCH, THERE IS NO SALVATION
• CAPACITAS DEI: My neverending quest to grow deeper into The Christ Principle.
• LECTIO DIVINA AS A MOSAIC OF IMPRESSIONS: WHAT TYPE OF CATHOLIC ARE YOU?
• YOUR HERITAGE: Wise Sayings
• YOUR HERITAGE: The Real Presence
• THE POWER OF ONE WORD
• THE EUCHARIST IS OUR CORE FOR A REASON: God gives us what we need.
• YOUR FAITH: The Resurrection of the Body
• YOUR CATHOLIC HERITAGE: Justin Martyr and the Period of the Blood.
• THE ART OF CONTEMPLATION: Outline of contemplative practices.
• SOLITUDE: The need to be with God.
• GOD’S SCIENTIST: What does it mean to wake up with the awareness that you are not a chair and discover where it all fits together?
• YOUR HERITAGE: Don’t squander it.
• YOUR INHERITANCE: Jewish Commandments and Prescriptions of the Law
• INTELLIGENT PROGRESSION: Ever sophisticated ways of being human.
• WHAT IS TRUTH?
• MAGISTER NOSTER: With God, there is always a profound dimension.
• ATHEISM AND THE THE CONSEQUENCES OF BELIEVING IN THE NON-EXISTENCE OF EXISTENCE
• THE LIFE: Four Inscrutables
• WATCHING THE PLASTIC FLOWERS GROW
• NEW DIMENSIONS: A Fantastic Discovery about the Holy Spirit
• RECOMMENDED CONTEMPLATIVE, SPIRITUAL READING LIST FOR LAY CISTERCIANS
• WONDER IF… I was the Pope, what changes would I make to the Church?
• WONDER IF… There was no historical Jesus.
• WONDER IF… There is or ever was a God?
• THIS IS YOUR HERITAGE: Lumen Gentium
• THE DIVINE EQUATION: The implications of corruptibility for the incorruptibility of the Resurrection.
• G.K. CHESTERTON: God’s Curmudgeon
• DON’T BE AFRAID
• THE SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENTS
• INTELLIGENT PROGRESSION: Cosmic integration of all reality
• BROWSING FOR JESUS: Jesus as Messiah
• SPIRITUAL READING: Sayings of the Desert Fathers
• COSMIC INTELLIGENT PROGRESSION
• DOCTOR MELLIFLUUS
• WHAT IS CONTEMPLATION ACCORDING TO ST. BERNARD
• NEW SKINS FOR NEW WINE: The Lay Cistercian commitment to seek God every day.
• LAY CISTERCIAN PRACTICES: The transforming power of Sacred Scripture.
• TOM O’BEDLAM READS….
• I WONDER…: THE SCHIZOPHRENIC CATHOLIC
• FIVE MINDSETS THAT HAVE HELPED ME SEE WHAT CAN’T BE SEEN WITH EYES ALONE
• WHERE ARE THOSE OLD WEDDING PICTURES, NOW?
• FIVE HABITS EVERY LAY CISTERCIAN SHOULD TRY TO UNCOVER
• EXPANDING YOUR FAITH: Angels
• LISTENING TO THE HEARTBEAT OF CHRIST
• THE TERRIFYING POWER OF THE TRANSFIGURATION
• THE WAY: Four Inscrutibles
• THE GOLDEN THREAD: Spiritual Kinship through The Christ Principle.
• THE IMPROBABLE POWER OF THE INCARNATION: The divine archetype.
• A LAY CISTERCIAN’S BEATITUDES
• THE UNIMAGINABLE POWER OF THE RESURRECTION
• WONDERFUL RESOURCES
• HERESY OF THE INDIVIDUAL: NEO-IDOLATRY
• YOUR CHURCH: The Kingdom of Heaven on earth
• SEEING JESUS
• YOUR CHURCH HISTORY HERITAGE: The insights of Eusebius
• THE INDEFATIGABLE NATURE OF TRUTH
• THE KEY TO EVERLASTING JEOPARDY
• MENTAL GYRATIONS ON WHY WE CANNOT PROVE GOD’S EXISTENCE
• FALLACIES THAT TERRIFY ME
• CONTEMPLATION IS THE CONCENTRATED ORANGE JUICE TO WHICH YOU MUST ADD THE WATER OF YOUR LIFE TO BE ABLE TO DRINK IT PROPERLY
• NEW IDEAS IN NEW SKINS: Twenty things I no longer do as part of my religious regime.
• YOUR CHURCH HISTORY: Eusebius, Book III
• WHY NOT?
• THAT’S THE HELL OF IT: Improbable thoughts about an illusive topic
• THAT’S THE HELL OF IT
• FIVE GIFTS THE HOLY SPIRIT GAVE ME AT BAPTISM
• CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES OF A BROKEN-DOWN, OLD LAY CISTERCIAN
• LENTEN READING: Sirach
• ALL THE ROWERS IN THE WORLD WON’T HELP YOU IF YOUR BOAT HAS A HOLE IN IT.
• SPIRITUAL READING
• CRAZY ANSWERS TO EVEN CRAZIER QUESTIONS
• ANTHROPOMORPHIC REPRESENTATION: What does God look like?
• THE SAINTS: Martyrs
• THE SAINTS: The Church’s Hall of Fame
• THE TRUTH: The weight of my daily cross
• THE VULNERABLE LAY CISTERCIAN: The Achilles Heel
• FAITH AND BELIEF: Fragments from Lectio Divina meditations
• EARLY WRITINGS: The Real Presence
• FRAGMENTS FROM MY LECTIO DIVINA (updated)
• INTO THE GREAT SILENCE
• EARLY WRITINGS: Eusebius
• MAGISTER NOSTER: What I must learn to fulfill the potential of my human nature.
• NEW YEAR’S THOUGHTS FROM THE EDGE OF TIME
• NEW YEAR’S REVOLUTIONS
• THE INCARNATION EVENT: THREE STRINGS THAT SHEPHERD NATURE TOWARDS IT DESTINY
• WAITING ON THE CUSP OF CHRISTMAS
• FRAGMENTS FROM MY LECTIO DIVINA: Did you know this about Mary?
• CUSTOS OCULI: The windows to the kingdom of heaven
• THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE: THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE FULLY WHAT OUR NATURE INTENDED.
• MY ASSUMPTIONS AS A LAY CISTERCIAN AS I COMMENT ABOUT SPIRITUAL REALITY
• AN ADVENT REFLECTION: LISTEN TO THE BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE
• NEW SKINS: Three templates I use for Lectio Divina focus.
• CONVERSIO MORAE: It’s complicated!
• NEW SKINS: The Incongruity of The Divine Equation
• HOW TRADITION REFUTES HERESY WITH SACRED SCRIPTURES: Growing deeper.
• CONTEMPLATIVE READING: Growing deeper through the Word.
• THE FAILURE TO REPLACE NEW SKINS: ARE YOU ILLITERATE IN YOUR CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY?
• NEW SKINS FOR NEW WINE: A DISCUSSION ABOUT OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE TRUTH
• THE THREE PRINCIPLES OF DIVINE NATURE
• NEW SKINS FOR A BROKEN-DOWN, OLD TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• SCRIPTURAL READING: Sirach
• THE POETRY OF NEW PROPHETS
• 10 TERRIFIC INSIGHTS INTO CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY I LEARNED FROM WATCHING HARRY POTTER MOVIES
• FRAGMENTS OF LEFT-OVER LECTIO DIVINA MEDITATIONS: Spiritual anarchy
• IDEAS TO MAKE ALL THINGS NEW
• READINGS TO LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS
• OUR CATHOLIC HALL OF FAME: St. Pio of Pietrelcina
• THE PROCESS OF ASSIMILATING ENERGY FROM GOD
• I AM A COMPLETE FAILURE
• FIVE PAIRS OF GLASSES TO SEE WHAT CANNOT BE SEEN
• THE LIFE OF CHRIST
• THE DEVIL’S HANDBOOK: Possession and Q&A.
• THE HUMAN RAMIFICATIONS OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT –Part II
• CONTEMPLATIVE THOUGHT ABOUT LIFE AND LOVE FROM SAINTS AND SINNERS Part II
• THE DEVIL’S HANDBOOK: Lessons on how to seduce humans.
• FIVE MUST-SEE CATHOLIC MOVIES
• WHAT IT MEANS TO BE CATHOLIC: The neverending story.
• SAYINGS
• SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
• MAGISTER NOSTER PART I: TEN LESSONS JESUS GIVES YOUNG CHRISTIANS TO FOCUS ON HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN
• THE WONDER I FEEL IN THE PRESENCE OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
• FOUR LEVELS OF CHURCH: Keep my commands
• LECTIO DIVINA FRAGMENTS
• HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BE A LAY CISTERCIAN?
• LECTIO DIVINA FRAGMENTS: Original Sin
• STAGES OF CONTEMPLATION
• LECTIO DIVINA FRAGMENTS: What will heaven be like?
• TOP TEN FAVORITE: Photos
• THE THREE LANGUAGES I USE TO SIT NEXT TO GOD AND THRIVE
• RESOURCES THAT HELP LIFT MY MIND AND HEART TO GOD
• JESUS AND I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM: How does one communicate with God, who has divine nature?
• Lectio Divina Fragments: Three Principles emerging from The Divine Equation
• THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE TEMPLATE
• TEN PRACTICES THAT BRING FULFILLMENT TO ME AS A CATHOLIC
• 10 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT HOW TO MOVE FROM SELF TO GOD
• I HAVE A GHOST WRITER
• TOP TEN MOVIE FAVORITES: A life at the movies.
• TWO TYPES OF CATHOLICISM: A Lay Cistercian looks at the duality of three new approaches to the Sacred.
• LECTIO DIVINA FRAGMENTS
• VISUAL LECTIO DIVINA: PART II
• VISUAL LECTIO DIVINA: Part 1
• WHAT ARE SOME CRITICISMS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
• THE ART OF CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE: THE SIX QUESTIONS THAT HAVE ALTERED HOW I THINK ABOUT THE DIVINE NATURE OF GOD
• MY MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRAYER DIMENSIONS
• LAYERS OF LECTIO DIVINA
• IS HEAVEN DIFFERENT FOR EACH HUMAN?
• THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE: From complexity to simplicity
• INTELLIGENT PROGRESSION: How time evolves using the Rule of Threes.
• PRACTICES THAT COME FROM CISTERCIAN MONASTIC PIETY
• WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN I SAY THAT CHRIST IS THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE?
• CORE RESOURCES: Contemplative Prayer
• THE MARTYRDOM OF THE ORDINARY: Paco’s Prayer
• THE PHENOMENON OF MAN: Background for The Christ Principle as Intelligent Progression.
• THE STARFISH THROWER
• FIVE LIFE-CRITICAL SKILLS MOMS AND DADS MUST SHOW THEIR CHILDREN
• SWITCHING POLES I: Using The Christ Principle to row upstream in life
• INTELLIGENT DESIGN IV: Words that contain the power of transformation
• INTELLIGENT PROGRESSION V: Choices of God that have conquences
• INTELLIGENT PROGRESSION III: Peering deeper into the mist of the human condition
• ARE YOU WASTING YOUR GOOD TIME BY BELIEVING IN GOD?
• ANOTHER VIEW OF REALITY
• LECTIO DIVINA: Approaching an awareness of God using a new technique
• Trappist Movie
• INTELLIGENT PROGRESSION: The Stages of Human Fulfillment II
• PROPHESIES THAT ARE TRUE, SADLY.
• PROBING THE DEPTHS OF “NOW”
• IT IS A WASTE OF GOOD TIME TO PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
• DOCTOR MELLIFLUUS
• SLOW DOWN II
• USING THE HEGELIAN DIALECTIC TO UNSCRAMBLE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE
• FALSE QUESTIONS: Beware of these five bear traps in seeking God each day as a Lay Cistercian.
• GREGORIAN CHANT: The language of God
• THE SIXTY-SECOND CATHOLIC: Lectio Divina lite
• PRIMARY RESOURCES
• TEN EXCUSES HUMANS USE WHEN STANDING BEFORE THE THRONE OF THE LAMB
• INTELLIGENT PROGRESSION: Is The Christ Principle the Fulfillment of the Gamaliel Prediction?
• ABANDONMENT: A Lay Cistercian’s quest to love God with his whole mind, his whole heart, his whole strength, and his neighbor as himself.
• CHAPTER 4: DISTRACTIONS AND BAD THOUGHTS DURING CONTEMPLATION
• REVERSIO MORAE: Ten habits of highly successful people who regress deeper into their false selves.
• LEARNING HOW TO LOVE
• MY TOP TEN FAVORITE: Daily Sins and Failings
• FROM WEAK MINDS COME STRONG IRONY
• JUST BECAUSE YOUR ROAD IS ROCKY, DOESN’T MEAN YOU ARE ON THE WRONG ROAD
• SPIRITUAL READING RECOMMENDATIONS
• WHAT DO YOU SEE?
• Leonardo DaVinci Drawing of Life
• SIMILI EST REGNUM COELORUM
• G. K. CHESTERTON RESOURCES
• DO YOU BELONG TO THE CULT OF MARY?
• SAINT CHARLES DE FOUCAULD
• CONVERSIO MORAE: Ten habits of highly successful people who move deeper into Christ Jesus.
• THE HUMAN RAMIFICATIONS OF VISIBILITY AND INVISIBILITY
• EVIL THOUGHTS
• FIRST STEPS AS A LAY CISTERCIAN
• MAGISTER NOSTER: God as Magister Noster
• THREE BATTLES YOU MUST FIGHT TO WIN
• THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE: WHAT IS YOUR MEASURING STICK?
• WONDER IF… there is no god, no Jesus Christ, no holy spirit, no resurrection, no afterlife…
• BALANCE IN CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER: SLEEPING ON THE EDGE
• FIVE contemplative THOUGHTS IN SEARCH OF CLOSURE
• FERTILIZER FOR FAITH: The God of Second Chances
• ARE YOUR MOM AND DAD OR FAMILY MEMBERS IN HEAVEN?
• BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU READ: Does the Church teach that we should not seek to convert the Jews?
• SIX QUESTIONS YOU MUST ANSWER BEFORE YOU DIE, GRASSHOPPER.
• MAKE A PRIVATE RETREAT WITH THE SOUL OF THE APOSTOLATE: Ten Aides to Mental Prayer
• MAKE A CONTEMPLATIVE RETREAT IN THE SILENCE OF YOUR HEART
• TRAPPIST BLOGS
• MARY STUART INSPIRED ME TO FIND A QUIET TRUTH
• THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT
• SEDUCED BY OUR WOUNDED NATURE
• THE DIVINE EQUATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF ASSUMPTIONS
• THE LAST BLOG I EVER WRITE
• DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO
• LOVE: OUR MOST ILLUSIVE REALITY
• THE DIVINE EQUATION: Assumptions make us who we are as humans
• HOW BIG IS YOUR WORLD?
• LITURGY OF THE HOURS: Office of the Dead
• WISDOM FROM THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US IN THE SIGN OF FAITH
• A LAY CISTERCIAN’S SAYINGS
• WHERE DOES GOOD OR EVIL ORIGINATE?
• FOR BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW
• IS AN ACTOR OR A SAINT A ROLE MODEL FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN?
• WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR ME TO BE A LAY CISTERCIAN?
• FIRECRACKER THOUGHTS
• THE HUMAN RAMIFICATIONS OF COSMIC YES AND NO STRINGS
• THE QUALITY OF FORGIVENESS
• WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU NEED TO ASK?
• CHAPTER 4: I USED TO LOOK DOWN ON THE BAPTIST CHURCH
• RESOURCES FOR THE CONTEMPLATIVE THINKER
• THE DIVINE EQUATION: The language of God
• WHAT IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE?
• THE ART OF CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE
• WISDOM: The quest to find god
• CONVERSIO MORAE: Reaching maturity as a human
• THE CHIRST PRINCIPLE: LINKING THE VINE TO THE BRANCHES
• ARE YOU FULL OF HATRED?
• AND I WILL DRAW ALL PEOPLE TO MYSELF
• ARE YOU ROMAN CATHOLIC OR JUST A ROAMING CATHOLIC?
• SEVEN CONTEMPLATIVE HABITS OF A BROKEN-DOWN, OLD, LAY CISTERCIAN TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• CONVERSIO MORAE: The habit of moving from my false self to my true self. With God’s energy, there is always deeper.
• THE SUBTLE SEDUCTION OF SACRED SCRIPTURES
• NON NOBIS, DOMINE, NON NOBIS
• THE INCORUPTIBILITY OF GOD:Like Father, Like Son.
• ARE YOU HALF A CATHOLIC?
• SATAN AND THE DEBAUCHERIES: The greatest sirens of all time.
• HUMILITY: The key to knowing, loving, and serving God in this life, and being happy with God forever in the next. (Baltimore Catechism, Question 6)
• THE TRUE COST OF BULLYING
• THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: A penance of conversion.
• SHAME ON YOU
• St. Charles de Foucauld: God’s bloodhound
• KITTY GENOVESE AND THE UKRAINE
• A PUZZLE MORE COMPLEX THAN SUDOKU: CAN YOU SOLVE THE DIVINE EQUATION?
• LENT: A time to die
• WHAT IS THE MOST POWERFUL ENERGY IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE?
• IT’S ALL A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE: What is hidden is most real.
• THE WAITING ROOM
• THE CHRIST PRINCIPLE: We are what we choose.
• SIC TRANSEAT GLORIA MUNDI