I just got back from a superb retreat and found that it's hard to come back to the "real world". The monks in the mastery in which I stayed would be quiet during supper. They are quiet when they walk around the monastery. They chant beautifully during their prayer times. I will miss the 6 am Office of Readings. I came back to a raucous wedding rehearsal and I couldn't help but miss the monastery. I had to come back home because of the noise. I will miss the silence of the monastery. I need to work on cultivating that.
Along the time on my retreat, I came up a with a few ideas to blog about including the professionalizing of parish live, finding the right question, and another search for help. At some point, I'm going to ask you to recommend a reading that I could do every day to complete what I'm calling the D7.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Solemnity of John Lateran: Christ is our temple
Friends Peace be with you. In the Fall of the year 2000, I studied for a semester in Jerusalem. Early on, my classmates went to the Te...
-
Friends Peace be with you. In the past several weeks, people have expressed concerns to me after Mass about seeing people receive but ...
-
Friends Peace be with you. Please permit me to take you on a bit of a deep dive for this homily. I’d like to talk about the nature of p...
-
I maintain that it takes a priest at least a couple of years before people are used to hearing him preach and the priest can tell a story th...
1 comment:
Lucky guy. I am so jealous
Post a Comment