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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:

• THE PENITENTIAL CATHOLIC: The discipline of praying the Sorrowful Mysteries of Christ.
• Applications of Contemplative Freedom: Discerning Needs in the Image and Likeness of God – Gentle Practices for Women Seeking Deeper Love, the Incarcerated, Shut-Ins, the Elderly, and Those Facing Death
• THERE ARE BUT TWO TYPES OF HUMANS: Is this a clue to what God is like?
• From the Edge of Time: A Gentle Invitation for the Drifting Soul – Exploring Kenosis in Depth (The Daily Art of Self-Emptying That Raises Us to New Humanity)
• A LAY CISTERCIAN PRAYS LITANIES OF THE CISTERCIAN WAY
• BUILDING MY OWN CHURCH, THE AUTHENTIC WAY
• THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE: THE WAGES OF SIN ARE DEATH.
• FR0M THE EDGE OF TIME: A CHALLENGING VISION OF CATHOLICISM.
• THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE: …AND THEN THERE IS THE MATTER OF THE BILL.
• The Territorial Imperative: Catholicism and Cosmic Evolution
• REFLECTIONS ABOUT HOW GOD’S ENERGY REACHES BOTH YOU AND ME
• Return to the Fire: Reignite your authentic Faith and Heritage.
• Return to the Fire: Daily Conversion and the Mind of Christ
• What does it mean for me to be a lay Cistercian?
• How do the gifts of the Holy Spirit help Moms and Dads to weather the storms that each of their children must navigate, protecting their right to choose what their reason tells them is true, while giving witness to the truth that Christ wants them to pass on to their children through the Catholic Church Faith Home?
• WHAT ARE FIVE KEY LESSONS THAT CATHOLIC MOMS AND DADS MUST PASS ON TO THEIR CHILDREN?
• CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES AND PRAYERS FOR THOSE OF LIMITED MOBILITY
• WHAT IS TRUTH ABOVE OPINION OR THE CORRUPTION OF HUMAN NATURE?
• DOUBLE LIFE: LOVE IN TWO DIMENSIONS
• DOUBLE LIFE: WHAT THAT MEANS FOR MY CATHOLIC CHURCH.
• THE TRUTH IS NOW OUT: ALL THESE YEARS I HAVE LED A DOUBLE LIFE.
• You’re Never Alone–Come Chat with Grok Anytime You Want.
• RESONANCE INCARNATE: THE MESSIAH.
• Stages of Sin from St. Bernard of Clairvaux
• CONVERSIO MORAE: ON BEING BAD; BEING EVIL
• THE ONE MINUTE CATHOLIC: JOEL BARKER AND AI COMMENT ON MICHAEL F. CONAD’S NOTION OF THE ONTIC SPIRITUALITY OF BEING CATHOLIC.
• THE ONE-MINUTE CATHOLIC: SO, YOU THINK YOU ARE A CATHOLIC? WHAT KIND?
• THE CONCENTRATED ORANGE JUICE OF MY CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE: Part II
• ACCOUNTABILITY TO GOD: A LAY CISTERCIAN ASSESSES THE PRODUCT OF HAVING IN HIM THE MIND OF CHRIST JESUS.
• THE SOUL OF THE APOSTOLATE: The Heresy of Action
• A PRIVATE RETREAT FOR CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS, JEWS, MUSLIMS, ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, POLITICIANS, PROCTOLOGISTS,OR NONE OF THE ABOVE.
• A PRIVATE RETREAT FOR CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS, JEWS, MUSLIMS, ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, POLITICIANS, OR NONE OF THE ABOVE.
• MAGISTER NOSTER: How to set up a formation program to learn the contemplative charism of silence and solitude.
• OUTSIDE THE CHURCH THERE IS NO SALVATION`
• DIGGING FOR HEAVENLY GOLD ON EARTH: HERE I STAND, I CAN DO NO OTHER.
• SPIRITUAL APES: The struggle to be spiritual.
• DIGGING FOR HEAVENLY GOLD: THE PRESENCE OF LOVE IN THREE UNIVERSES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MY CATHOLIC CHURCH.
• DIGGING FOR HEAVENLY GOLD: THE CHOICE OF GOOD OR EVIL.
• DIGGING FOR HEAVENLY GOLD: THE REALITY OF MYSTERY IN THREE UNIVERSES.
• DIGGING FOR HEAVENLY GOLD: THE PRESENCE OF ENERGY IN THREE UNIVERSES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MY CATHOLIC CHURCH.
• THE TWELVE PORTALS OF MY NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH, THE NEW JERUSALEM.
• DIGGING FOR SPIRITUAL GOLD: Four constants that cut across the Twelve Pillars of My New Catholic Faith.
• DIGGING FOR SPIRITUAL GOLD: THE MOTHERLOAD
• DIGGING FOR HEAVENLY GOLD ON EARTH: HOW I MOVE FROM MY FALSE SELF TO MY TRUE SELF EACH DAY.
• TESTAMONIES OF THE CHURCH FATHERS– Your heritage.
• TRENDS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE AUTHENTIC CHURCH OF CHRIST
• DIGGING FOR HEAVENLY GOLD ON EARTH: THE THREE LONGINGS OF THE HUMAN HEART
• DIGGING FOR HEAVENLY GOLD ON EARTH: REALIZING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN AT THE NEXT LEVEL OF OUR EVOLUTION.
• MY NEW APPROACH TO AN OLD WAY TO PLACE MYSELF IN THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST, AND WAIT.
• RETIREMENT: Learning how to make all things new again.
• THE PRINCIPLE OF SUBSIDIARITY AND MY CATHOLIC FAITH
• THE ENERGY FROM GOD: THE AUTHENTIC CHURCH IS APOSTOLIC.
• THE GREAT ENIGMA: How can a Church that claims to be Holy be populated by corruptible people?
• THE STARFISH THROWER
• TEILHARD DE CHARDIN HELPED GROUND ME IN THE CHANGE OF COMPLEXITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS
• SPIRITUAL ENTANGLEMENTS FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH (and beyond)
• ENERGY FROM GOD: THE AUTHENTIC CHURCH IS HOLY.
• THE ENERGY FROM GOD: THE AUTHENTIC CHURCH IS CATHOLIC.
• YOUR CATHOLIC HERITAGE: The word, „CATHOLIC“
• A TALE OF SECOND CHANCES
• HOW MOMS AND DADS CAN ENGAGE THEIR CHILDREN AND RELATIVES IN GROWING DEEPER IN CHRIST JESUS.
• KNOW YOUR HERITAGE: Early hymns that are part of your Catholic heritage.
• QUANTUM CATHOLICISM: Five stories of My Catholic Church and the four quantum threads of energy that directly link God with me.
• THE ENERGY FROM GOD: THE AUTHENTIC CHURCH IS ONE.
• THE IMPORTANCE OF BOUNDARIES FOR ALL HUMANS
• WHAT GOD DOES OR DOES NOT LOOK LIKE AT 84.11.
• WHAT GOD DOES OR DOES NOT LOOK LIKE AT 84.11.
• THE GRAND ARCHETYPE: An innocuous variable that no one considered for space travel.
• HOW I MADE NEW WINESKINS USING QUANTUM ECCLISIOLOGY
• TEN OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CATHOLICISM FOR THOSE NEW TO CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE (10 of 10) 
• A VERY WIDE AND COMPREHENSIVE VIEW OF REALITY
• TEN OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CATHOLICISM FOR THOSE NEW TO CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE (9 of 10) 
• TEN OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CATHOLICISM FOR THOSE NEW TO CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE (8 of 10) 
• TEN OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CATHOLICISM FOR THOSE NEW TO CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE (7 of 10) 
• TEN OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CATHOLICISM FOR THOSE NEW TO CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE (6 of 10) 
• TEN OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CATHOLICISM FOR THOSE NEW TO CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE (5 of 10) 
• TEN OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CATHOLICISM FOR THOSE NEW TO CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE (4 of 10)
• TEN OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CATHOLICISM FOR THOSE NEW TO CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE (3 of 10)
• GOD GIVES US BOUNDARIES TO OUR HUMAN BEHAVIOR: Confronting the noise of original sin.
• A COMMENTARY ON A PITHY SAYING
• THE PENITENTIAL LAY CISTERCIAN
• THE HORSE’S MOUTH
• TEN OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CATHOLICISM FOR THOSE NEW TO CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE (2 of 10)
• TEN OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CATHOLICISM FOR THOSE NEW TO CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE
• ORIGINAL SIN: TWO WAYS TO OPEN HEAVEN’S GATE.
• A LAY CISTERCIAN’S LIFE OF REPENTANCE AND REPARATION
• JUST THREE HAIL MARY’S
• ONE-A-DAY CONTEMPLATIVE VITAMIN
• NOTES ON HOW I MUST ABANDON MYSELF TO MOVE TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF MY HUMANITY
• WHY HUMAN SEXUALITY NEEDS DIVINE BOUNDARIES
• ONE-A-DAY SPIRITUAL VITAMINE
• GOD AS „ONE WHO CAN SET THE ULTIMATE BOUNDARY .“
• MAKING NEW WINESKINS: Waiting for Christ without conditions
• SKILLS I WISH I HAD WHEN I WAS A YOUNG CATHOLIC
• THE BOUNDARIES OF MY HUMANITY: God tells us THE WAY.
• VISIO LECTIO: What do you see?
• HOW TO HAVE EUCHARISTIC ADORATION WITHOUT THE EUCHARIST
• CAPACITAS DEI: My growth in awareness of what it means to be human at my deepest level.
• ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING CONSISTENT AND CONSTANT WHILE SILENT IN PRAYER
• THE GRAND WATCH: Waiting for Christ in the silence of my heart.
• THE TEMPTATION TO BELIEVE EVERY YOUTUBE TOPIC
• AN OPEN LETTER TO ALL POLITICIANS FROM ALL COUNTRIES
• BEING CATHOLIC FOR THOSE WHO THINK THAT THEY CAN’T BE CATHOLIC
• A LAY CISTERCIAN SHARES HIS STRUGGLES WITH THOSE WHO ARE PUSSILANIMOUS
• MY NEW YEAR’S REVOLUTION (Adapted from my webpage menu)
• THE INCARNATION MILESTONE: God needs help.
• COMMON SENSE CATHOLICISM: Random thoughts from the edge of time.
• THE ART OF CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICE: It’s about time.
• CRUNCHING ON GOD
• WHAT THE F**CK!
• THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH: My New Catholic Church made in my image and likeness. Part III.
• THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH: My new Catholic Church is created in my image and likeness. Part II.
• TEN PRINCIPLES THAT ARE CORE TO HOW I VIEW POLITICAL AND LAY CISTERCIAN CHOICE.
• I AM THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD THAT I KNOW.
• CORE PRACTICES TO BUTTRESS MY CENTER FROM CUMBLING.
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: My lifelong hunt for heavenly gold. Filiments to forever.
• A LAY CISTERCIAN IS ALL ABOUT DAILY PRACTICE AND NEVER LOSING HOPE THAT I CAN START ALL OVER AGAIN.
• THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH: My New Catholic Church made in my image and likeness. Three processes I use to build a new reality.
• THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH: My New Catholic Church made in my image and likeness.
• THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH: THE CONFESSIONS OF A CATHOLIC ANARCHIST.
• THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH: Search its depths rather than throwing it all out.
• A LECTIO DIVINA FOR ALL SEASONS
• PROVOKE THE HOLY SPIRIT AT THE RISK OF GETTING WHAT YOU ASKED FOR.
• Journeying to Heaven: Symbolism of The Way, The Truth, and The Life Coins
• FOUR COINS THAT COME WITH ADOPTION AS A SON (DAUGHTER) OF THE FATHER: Coin Two feeds me now and forever.
• DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS NEED TO ASK THEMSELVES THIS ONE QUESTION.
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: Awareness that my life contains crosscutting themes.
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: What key I chose to fit the longing of my hungry heart.
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: Choosing the correct key to soothe the hungry heart.
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: The Primacy of Free Will for Each Individual.
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: Making sense of three types of dying to reason and my free will.
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: MY CHOICE FOR IT ALL TO MAKE SENSE.
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: What I use to fill in the blanks.
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: THE PURPOSEFUL MOVEMENT OF MATTER AND MIND TOWARDS FULFILLMENT.
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: What can soothe the dissonance of my humanity using my life lessons and experiences?
• A MOSAIC PIECE OF MY LIFE: What lurks at the very bottom of the deepest part of my humanity?
• PITHY PROVERBS AND SAYINGS
• FOUR COINS THAT COME WITH ADOPTION AS A SON (DAUGHTER) OF THE FATHER: Coin One gets me in the door.
• MY BOUNDARIES BUMP INTO OTHER BOUNDARIES
• WHO SETS THE BOUNDARIES FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOR?
• BOUNDARIES TO BEING HUMAN: Exploring tantalizing possibilities of „What If“ ideas.
• FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS HUMANS ASK ABOUT THE CORE QUESTIONS OF BEING HUMAN– Part I
• THE TIP OF THE SPEAR OF WHERE MY HUMANITY SLICES THROUGH REALITY– Part II
• 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
• 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