Room Enough - an Eckhart poem for Easter-seeking people

Another example of why I love the letters to the editor @thetls.bsky.social.

It is probably time for Pope Leo to begin the process of removing leadership in the Church from Bishop Barron's platform. “You Rose Up” — Leaked Video Shows Bishop Barron Clapping as Trump Was Compared to Christ open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

"I have renounced spirituality to find God." Thomas Merton (The Sign of Jonas, p.334)

Entrepreneurs, here's an untapped market: Really ugly boils and lice stickers for preschool-age children. Sheets of 12 please. The scarier the better. Have them available next March. #HappyPassover

“It is a great art to saunter.” H.D. Thoreau, April 26, 1841

If you're a Christian contemplating putting on a Passover Seder this week, let me encourage you otherwise. Here's why. www.focolaremedia.com/magazine/con...

I'm a liberal, but even I still believe this piece of Gospel: Let me ask you one question Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could? I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul.

The Church really leaned into the whole kingship thing for Christ, didn’t we? I think that says a whole lot more about us than it does about him.

The Church Fathers and Mothers taught that everyone, at the end of life has an opportunity to see the length and depth of their lives and consider again who they are and where they want to be. For this reason, Origen said, Judas was likely in heaven. Give everyone another chance. I like that.

You've heard of Meister Eckhart's notion of "living without a why"? This is how it begins. from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart'📚

Grumpy saint

On June 9th, 1889, the day after Gerard Manley Hopkins died, in Dublin, one of his fellow priests was seen burning his private papers in the fireplace in his rooms.

“If you want the kernel you must break the shell.” Meister Eckhart

Holy fool love #Franciscan

Some days you just need to hug a potato, and that’s OK.

One more Lenten Eckhart poem… “Can you let your notions die?” (from Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart) #meistereckhart

Rear jacket marketing copy, Dorothy Sayers, 1946 (London).

My dog scared and scattered a gang of turkeys in the woods today. I scolded her a little bit for it, but she had a lot of fun!

These are just three of the many colorful paintings on the walls of the College of arts and sciences at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut. This is Moses, Jesus, and Aristotle.

If you have a say in how Good Friday services are done in your parish, I hope you’ll help make it powerful without being anti-Jewish.🙏🙏

I suspect and hope that we may start to see growing numbers of US military members going Absent Without Leave (AWOL), refusing to serve. Unlike TSA, they're getting paid, but they also know that this isn't what they signed up for.

Such gorgeous typography

I guess faith shaming clicks well now. people.com/prince-willi...

Cistercian monastery in Bavaria. I think I’m moving here tomorrow.

The feeling you have when you're about to purchase a book online, then you think, maybe I own this, and you find it on the shelf behind you.

The world has become cruel and absurd. It amazes me that people think we're constantly evolving, as in, improving.

An open heart is better than obedience #Lent #poem

I’m listening.

Can we now stop using the phrase, the other? It is a philosophical abstraction. We seek to know that and those which and who are unknown to us.

One of the many rivers feeding into Lake Seymour in the Northeast Kingdom, Vermont. There must be a salmon in there somewhere.

I'll see you at Boston College next Sunday.

I'm in Echo Lake, Vermont (northeast kingdom) for the weekend, just a few miles from the Canadian border. Snowing like crazy.

St. Francis teaches us that to obey Christ is sometimes to disobey the church www.ncronline.org/opinion/st-f...

If you could see from "Meister Eckhart's Book of Secrets" 📚🙏

Job sending flakes from his loathsome sores onto the heads of his counselors below.

Franciscan cat.

When Malcolm Cowley was editing "The Portable Faulkner" in 1945, every one of Faulkner's 17 books was out of print. Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature 4 years later. #hugyoureditortoday

We took serious notice of the new Rachel Held Evans book at S&P. www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews...

The foes we face, the ones we bow before, hoping they won’t hurt us, are in fact nothing but snails.

I have a good friend in Maine who got a bunch of snow in the last couple days. I asked, where was your snow shovel? He said, I had put it away. I said, you should’ve known better. Here’s what it looks like at my house in Vermont. Just sayin.

There are 11 days until Holy Week. This book is for kids - a creative and fun look at the life of the Pope and the Church, while also teaching about words, symbols, and traditions in a simple way everyone can understand. Margaret is the cat who lives at the Vatican with the Pope.

In distress and want I ask From "Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart - Meditations for the Restless Soul"

Burlap. Fabulous.

The triage of reading 📚📚: Must today for work. Must today for writing. Must today for joy.

Pray for us St. Patrick, for we too are dancing with snakes.

This vault is very close to the graves of Emerson and Thoreau in the cemetery in Concord, dating from 1855. I would love to see inside.

Surely we can agree on some things. For instance, there should never be a QR code or barcode on a saint card.

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