The “October” issue of The Way has just been published including my article on the Spiritual Exercises, “Id Quod Volo: The Erotic Grace of the Second Week”. I wrote briefly about the core idea a little while ago and if you are interested you can access the full version free, gratis, and for nothing at …
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Sunday Week 33 Year B
Homily for a Study Day on the Spiritual Exercises dealing with the Contemplatio ad Amorem Readings: Dan 12:1-13; Heb 10:11-14, 18; Mark 13:24-32 A plane passed over and I could hear it with a shudder even though I was sitting in The Arches (basement prayer room). I heard the plane in my praying and the …
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Saturday Week 31 Year II
Readings: Philippians 4:10-19; Luke 16:9-15 Money continues to be in the spotlight today and it’s interesting how Jesus both praises and condemns it in the same breath. He calls it tainted, little, even loathsome and yet, precisely because it is so unimportant it assumes importance. How we handle the small stuff reveals our hearts better …
Too Attached to Words
It isn’t as if it is entirely news to me… but a recent round of being edited for publication has really rubbed in how attached I am to the sound of my own ‘voice’. I’ve been working with Philip Endean, SJ, editor of The Way, to get an article ready for the latest issue and …
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a strange and nasty and underestimated illness. I’ve been suffering with it for the last five years or so. The US Centre for Disease Control has just produced a detailed web site on the subject. What is CFS? Doesn’t everybody get tired out? The CDC says this: As the name …
Presidents in Their Own Words
Chirag Mehta has taken the written words of US Presidents and plotted a tag cloud of the results. Very interesting. You can watch the rhetoric shift year by year. Thanks to Andrew Vande Moere (who also has links to similar projects).
Sunday Week 31 Year B
Readings: Deut 6:2-6; Hebrews 7:23-28; Mark 12:28-34 ‘And after that no one dared question him any more’… Interesting. What do you think shuts them up so thoroughly? Are they scared? Confused? Are they silenced by his cleverness? Are they moved in some more obscure and unknown way? And what of us? What happens in your …
Beauty?
There’s a striking short video at the Campaign for Real Beauty website. It critiques the ideal and manipulation of female beauty in advertising while also managing to be an advertisement for Dove beauty products that manipulates images of female beauty. But it’s worth a look–do you feel enlightened or hoodwinked? Thanks to Brandon