Responding To The Stirrings Of The Spirit: In A Moment

Friday, November 12, 2021

In A Moment

Flaming burning rock

Racing across the night sky

Leaving a streak in its wake

A bold rash statement

Not at all to be believed

Due to its half life

Quickly extinguished

In a moment Not a match

For Orion's sword

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Some Of What I Read In Simple Vows In 2021

Celibacy - Fr. Edward Schillebeeckx, O. P.
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God - Fr. Jean Leclercq, O.S.B.
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo
The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Escape From Intimacy: Untangling the "Love'' Addictions: Sex, Romance, Relationships - Anne Wilson Schaef
Number The Stars - Lois Lowry
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Prophet For Our Time - Rev. Bonnell Spencer, O.H.C.
Tensions: Necessary Conflicts in Life and Love - Rev. Harry Abbott Williams, C. R.
Plato's View of Man - Constantine Cavarnos
What Happened at Vatican II - John W. O'Malley
The New Testament in The New English Bible
Celibacy: Means of Control or Mandate of the Heart? - Fr. Michael Crosby, O. F. M. Cap.
That Hideous Strength - C. S. Lewis
The Power And The Glory - Graham Greene
The New Sexuality - Eugene Kennedy
Celibacy: The Fullness Of Life - Anselm Gruen, O.S.B.
The Gospels in The Word On Fire Bible
Everything Is Grace: The Life and Way of Thérèse of Lisieux - Br. Joseph Schmidt, F.S.C.
Blessed Miguel Pro: 20th Century Mexican Martyr - Ann Ball
The Courage To Be Chaste - Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R.
The Wild Man's Journey: Reflections on Male Spirituality - Fr. Richard Rohr, O.F.M. and Joseph Martos
Francis, Bishop of Rome: A Short Biography - Fr. Michael Collins
The Fourth Gospel - Fr. Louis Bouyer, Cong. Orat.
Sexuality, Chastity & Personal Hangups: A Handbook for the Single Man and Woman and the Unhappily Married - Joseph Wade
Family Happiness - Leo Tolstoy
Peace On Earth - Saint Pope John XXIII
Spirituality, Intimacy, and Sexuality - John Galindo and Owen Cummings
Three Women and the Lord - Adrienne von Speyr
Women and the Word - Sr. Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Praying The Psalms - Fr. Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O.
Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit - Sr. Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J.
Sex: The Radical View of a Catholic Theologian - Michael Valente
Reflections on the Psalms - C.S. Lewis
The Celibate Condition And Sex - Marc Oraison
A Song To Live, A Life To Live: Reflections on Music As A Spiritual Practice - Don Saliers and Emily Saliers
Morning Homilies - Pope Francis
Walking the Little Way of Therese of Lisieux: Discovering the Path of Love - Br. Joseph Schmidt, F.S.C.
The World of the Desert Fathers - Fr. Columba Stewart, O.S.B.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers - Sr. Benedicta Ward S.L.G.
A Secret World: Sexuality And The Search For Celibacy - Richard Sipe
Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
Rejoice! - Pope Francis
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Vatican Council II: The Conciliar and Post Conciliar Documents - Fr. Austin Flannery, O. P.
Maurice and Therese: The Story Of A Love - Patrick Ahern
The Souls Of Black Folk - W. E. B. DuBois

Some Films I Saw In Simple Vows in 2021

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe [UK, USA, 2005]
Beautifully Broken [USA, 2018]
Forbidden Planet [USA, 1956]
The Great Escape [USA, 1963]
Il Postino [Italy, France, Belgium, 1994]
Amistad [USA, 1997]
Fatima [Portugal, USA, 2020]
A Hidden Life [USA, Germany, 2019]
Faustina: The Apostle of Divine Mercy [Poland, 1994]
With God in Russia: The True Story of Fr. Walter Ciszek [USA, 2002]
Between Two Worlds [USA, 1944]
In The Heat Of The Night [USA, 1967]
Bless You, Prison [Romania, 2002]
Boomerang! [USA, 1947]
A Quiet Place [USA, 2018]
The 13th Day [USA, 2009]
An Inspector Calls [UK, 2015]

Some Of What I Read In Simple Vows In 2020

Celibacy: Renewing the Gift, Releasing the Power - Raymond Gunzel
The Problem Of Doing Your Own Thing - Rev. Bob Mumford
Early Greek Philosophy - Jonathan Barnes, ed.
The Rule Of Benedict For Beginners: Spirituality for Daily Life - Wil Derkse
Seeking God: The Way Of Saint Benedict - Esther de Waal
Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality - Gordon Allport
Socrates: The Man And His Thought - A. E. Taylor
Obedience, The Greatest Freedom: In the Words of Alberione and Others
The Wound Of Love: A Carthusian Miscellany - Anonymous
The Hidden Face: A Study of St. Therese of Lisieux - Ida Friederike Görres
The Examen Prayer: Ignatian Wisdom for Our Lives Today - Fr. Timothy Gallagher, O.M.V.
Conversations of Socrates - Xenophon
The Crown Of Life - C. J. McElligott, CSsR.
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People - Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South - Kenneth Stampp
The Practice of the Vows - Louis Colin
Camaldolese Spirituality: Essential Sources - Peter Damian Belisle, ed.
An Experience of Celibacy - Keith Clark, O.F.M. Cap.
A Conversion of Manners: The Spiritual Legacy of Saint Benedict - William Roche
Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi
The Old Testament in The New English Bible
Praying Our Experiences: An Invitation to Open Our Lives to God - Br. Joseph Schmidt, F.S.C.
The Spirituality of Wine - Tom Harpur

Films I Watched In Simple Vows In 2020

Breakthrough [USA, 2019]
Star Wars Episode VI: The Return Of The Jedi [USA, 1984]
Baraka [USA, 1992]
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens [USA, 2015]
No Greater Love [UK, 2009]
Der Neunte Tag (The Ninth Day) [Germany, Luxembourg, 2004]
The Mission [UK, 1986]
Samsara [USA, 2011]
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi [USA, 2017]
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker [USA, 2019]
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story [USA, 1996]
A Quiet Place [USA, 2018]
The Nun: The Story Of A Carmelite Vocation [Sweden, 2007]
It's A Wonderful Life [USA, 1946]

Some Of What I Read During My Novitiate, in 2019-2020

The Lion Of Munster: The Bishop Who Roared Against The Nazis - Daniel Utrecht
The Imitation Of Christ - Thomas a Kempis
Storm Of Glory - John Beevers
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
Christ, The Ideal Of The Monk - Blessed Columbia Marmion
Gandhi And The Unspeakable - Jim Douglass
Radical Integrity: The Story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Michael Van Dyke
Therese of Lisieux: A Transformation in Christ - Fr. Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O.
To Be In Christ - Hubert Van Zeller, O.S.B.
Thoughts of Saint Therese - Saint Therese of Lisieux
Holy Night - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Love That Keeps Us Sane: Living the Little Way of St. Therese of Lisieux - Fr. Marc Foley, O.C.D.
The Way Of Humility - Fr. Andre Louf, O.C.S.O.
The Rule Of Saint Benedict
The Life Of Saint Benedict - Saint Pope Gregory The Great, with commentary by Fr. Adalbert de Vogue, O.S.B.
The Happiness of God: Holiness in Therese of Lisieux - Susan Leslie
Strength To Love - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Céline, Sister Geneviève of the Holy Face: Sister and Witness to St. Therese of the Child Jesus - Fr. Stephane-Joseph Piat, O.F.M.
Word Into Silence - Fr. John Main, O.S.B.
The Rule Of The Master - Unknown
An Introduction To The Devout Life - Saint Francis de Sales
Consider Your Call: A Theology of Monastic Life Today - Daniel Rees And Others
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages - Sr. Joan Chittister, O.S.B.
Reading Saint Benedict: Reflections on the Rule - Fr. Adalbert de Vogue, O.S.B.
The Path Of Life - Fr. Cyprian Smith, O.S.B.
Monastic Practices - Fr. Charles Cummings, O.C.S.O.
The Jerusalem Bible
Strangers to the City: Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of St. Benedict - Fr. Michael Casey, O.C.S.O.
Therese of Lisieux: A Vocation Of Love - Marie Pascale Ducrocq

Films I Watched During My Novitiate, in 2019-2020

Baraka [USA, 1992]
Overcomer [USA, 2019]
Unplanned [USA, 2019]
The Hiding Place [USA, 1975]
Amazing Grace [USA, 2018]
Thérèse [France, 1986]
Edith Stein: The Seventh Chamber [Italy, 1995]
Viceroy's House [UK, India, 2017]
Watership Down [UK, 1978]
Stop Making Sense [USA, 1984]
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker [USA, 2019]
Star Wars Episode VI: The Return Of The Jedi [USA, 1984]
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me [USA, 2014]
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope [USA, 1977]
A Hidden Life [USA, Germany, 2019]
The Day The Earth Stood Still [USA, 1951]
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back [USA, 1980]
An Inspector Calls [UK, 2015]

Some Of What I Read In My Second Postulancy, in 2018-2019

The Story Of A Soul - Saint Therese of Lisieux
Eight Women Who Made a Difference: With Minds of Their Own - Fr. Boniface Hanley, O.F.M.
Thérèse of Lisieux: A Biography - Patricia O'Connor
Out Of The Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
The Imitation Of Mary - Thomas a Kempis
Therese - Dorothy Day
The Life Of Antony And The Letter To Marcellinus - Saint Athanasius
Ad Monachos - Evagrius Ponticus
The Noonday Devil - Jean-Charles Nault, O.S.B.
The Catechism Of The Catholic Church
The Whole World Will Love Me: The Life of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face - Dorothy Scallan
Love Of Eternal Wisdom - Saint Louis de Montfort
The Saints' Guide To Happiness - Robert Ellsberg
The Privilege Of Love - Peter Damian Belisle, ed.
Heaven Begins Within You: Wisdom From the Desert Fathers - Fr. Anselm Gruen, O.S.B.
The Life Of Saint Benedict - Saint Pope Gregory The Great
Therese of Lisieux - Hans Urs von Balthasar
Saint Teresa of Lisieux: A Spiritual Renascence - Henry Petitot, O.P.
Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence - Fr. Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J.
Leonie Martin: A Difficult Life - Marie Baudoin-Croix
Can You Drink The Cup? - Fr. Henri Nouwen

Films I Watched During My Second Postulancy, in 2018-2019

Pope Francis: A Man Of His Word [France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, 2018]
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope [USA, 1977]
Saints And Soldiers [USA, 2003]
Dr. Strangelove (Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb) [UK, USA, 1964]
Logan's Run [USA, 1976]
The Shack [USA, 2017]
Des Hommes Et Des Dieux (Of Gods And Men) [France, 2010]
The Young Messiah [USA, 2016]
God's Not Dead [USA, 2014]
The Passion of Joan of Arc [France, 1928]
The Conflict [USA, UK, 1973]
Lilies Of The Field [USA, 1963]
Silence [USA, Taiwan, Mexico, UK, Italy, Japan, 2016]
Katyn [Poland, 2007]

Some Of What I Read During My First Postulancy, In 2015

Out Of Solitude: Three Meditations On The Christian Life - Fr. Henri Nouwen
The Practice Of The Presence Of God - Brother Lawrence
Practicing His Presence - Brother Lawrence and Frank Laubach
A Wolf At The Gate - Mark van Steenwyk
Lying Awake - Mark Salzman
Monastic Life: A Short History of Monasticism and Its Spirit - Fr. M. Basil Pennington, O.C.S.O.
A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle
The Life Of The Virgin Mary - Rainer Maria Rilke
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Titus Brandsma: Friar Against Fascism - Fr. Leopold Glueckert, O. Carm.
Night - Elie Wiesel
Confessions - Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Wisdom of the Desert Fathers - Sr. Benedicta Ward, S.L.G.
The World of the Desert Fathers - Fr. Columba Stewart, O.S.B.
Listen to the Desert: Secrets of Spiritual Maturity from the Desert Fathers and Mothers - Fr. Gregory Mayers, C.SsR.
The Shack - William Young
Heaven Begins Within You: Wisdom From the Desert Fathers - Fr. Anselm Gruen, O.S.B.
Humility - Andrew Murray
Lying with the Heavenly Woman: Understanding and Integrating the Feminine Archetypes in Men's Lives - Robert A. Johnson

Friday, November 12, 2021

In A Moment

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