Dec 01 2007
Emmanuel
What better time, than as we enter the Advent season, to pass along the joy of God-centred people, as Marie and Ginny describe here.
I would like to pass this on to the very dedicated people of the Madonna House apostolate. You will also find a link to their field houses in my sidebar.
To begin the Advent season, I share with you the words of Catherine Doherty:
“Advent is a time of standing still and yet making a pilgrimage. It is an inner pilgrimage, a pilgrimage in which we don’t use our feet. We stand still; yet in a manner of speaking, we walk a thousand miles across the world – just because we choose to stand still. So, then, let us enter, you and I, into the pilgrimage that doesn’t take us from home. For ours is a pilgrimage of the spirit, which is a thousand times harder than a journey of the feet. Let us arise and go.”
[Taken from: Donkey Bells]
And go to Innisfree…
… And I shall have some peace there,
For peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning
To where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer,
And noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.’
W.B.Yeats
As soon as I read the post this poem ( only part of which is here) came to mind. And the mention of purple glow fits in so well doesn’t it?
I’m just a tad overprotective.