Lovescape: Meditatations on the Saints of October
October is a month of many saints who have especially touched my spiritual journey and put me into contact, in a more profound way, with the Person of Jesus Christ. Perhaps one of the deepest…
Tag: Christianity
Creating Reality: A Christian Perspective
A thought about "creating our own reality." I hear this phrase a lot and feel that there is both truth and untruth present within it, or perhaps a promising half-truth that never fully delivers, at…
A Promise in the Name of the Saints
~ by Lawrence “Mack” Hall [For Brother Columba and Brother JosephAbbey St. Joseph, Covington, Louisiana. “He will make his promise in the name of the saints whose relics lie there, and to the abbot.” -…
Divine Dance: Interfaith Discussions on the Trinity
In light of a bunch of interfaith conversations, which I find tend to go in a cyclical fashion with regards to the Trinity and Incarnation, I think, perhaps, I have come to understand at least…
“The Queen Stands at Your Right Hand, Arrayed in Gold”
~ by Lawrence “Mack” Hall The Queen stands at His right hand, arrayed in gold The Queen is not ornamented in gold The Queen is not decorated in gold The Queen is not merely costumed…
Four Poets: A Commentary on Muslim and Christian Spiritual Themes in Literature
I was asked to discuss how four poets, from different countries, religions and times, might be linked together spiritually and how Muslims might benefit from reading them in a conversation with a conference organiser. The…
Saint Hubert’s Hunt
O cross between the antlers beamingbrighter than the brightest painSearing, sun-sunk hour of death, hail!Strung of suffocation and suffusionHunted as the wild stag, white as host-to-tongueWild bread, wilder meat, wending through weeds,Hooves that wound us,…
A Christ-Worshiper’s Response
In response to a poem by Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyya ~ O Christ-worshipers! Fair questions have been put to us in search of wise answers, By our kin, children of Ibrahim, our father in faith, and…
The Neutron as a Quantum Manifestation (Avatar) of the Holy Trinity
The perception of God as a Holy Trinity is among the prime ideas of Christianity. The majority of Christian denominations share this idea, so it can be safely said that “God as Trinity” is a…
Choirs of Angels
~By Amanda Pizzolatto Seraphim Hovering near the everlasting Lord Drinking up every Holy Word These beings burn bright with desire Burning with a love hotter than any fire And as they approach on every side…