http://gabrielle.stblogs.com asylum for your refugee soul Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:17:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I look around the blogosphere lately, I find infrequent postings and dwindling comments.  This is perfectly understandable, since many of us are enjoying summer after a long, hard winter, and entertaining visitors from afar.  For those whose winter has arrived, perhaps they are cozying up more frequently near the fireplace, sipping hot drinks and ... http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2008/07/17/bodies-and-souls-in-ordinary-time/ Excerpt from The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, by Michael Mott [pg. 337]: "A little more than a year later, on December 26, 1960, through a series of circumstances he could not have foreseen, Thomas Merton had his high place at Gethsemani and his hermitage: Lit candles in the dusk. Haec regina ... http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2008/07/14/monday-morning-with-merton-coming-home/ I cannot dance, O Lord, Unless You lead me, If You wish me to leap joyfully, Let me see You dance and sing - Then I will leap into Love - And from Love into Knowledge, And from Knowledge into the Harvest, That sweetest Fruit beyond human sense. There I will stay with You, whirling. [Mechthild of Magdeburg]  Share This http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2008/07/11/lead-me/ Congratulations to the members of the Madonna House Apostolate (see links in my sidebar) for their decision to return Catherine Doherty's "Order of Canada", in protest against its having also been recently awarded to abortionist/abortion rights crusader Henry Morgentaler (as I outlined in this post).  The media is covering the story today. The CBC has ... http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2008/07/08/madonna-house-returns-order-of-canada/ Not long ago, over at Beyond the Horizon 3, Pia spoke of the somewhat mysterious effect of the sound of bells, and there was a little more chatting about it in the combox.... It reminded me of something I had read recently by Merton, from "Thoughts in Solitude", Chapter XVI: "Bells are ... http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2008/07/07/monday-morning-with-merton-the-charity-of-the-bells/ NATIONAL CONSECRATION OF CANADA TO THE SACRED HEART The prayer I am posting here is taken from a little yellow booklet entitled, "Prayers and Hymns in Honour of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  Crusade of Prayer for Victory and Peace", published in 1943 by an Ottawa newspaper, Le Droit.  On the inside ... http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2008/07/05/what-canada-needs/ Normally when I use the tag "Canadian" on a post, it is with a sense of joy and a feeling of pride.  Sadly, this is not the case today, on our country's 141st birthday.  Today, to our eternal shame, the Order of Canada, the highest honour Canada awards to anyone, was presented to ... http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2008/07/01/canada-day-dis-order/ "The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created as supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no value to men.  The wasteland was the land that could never be wasted by men because it offered them nothing.  There was nothing to attract them.  There ... http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2008/06/30/monday-morning-with-merton-sand-in-our-eyes/ ...at Consecrated to Mary... Share This http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2008/06/27/feastday-of-our-lady-of-perpetual-help-2/ "Give freely of thy spirit and judge not; be longsuffering and patient, for when you are kind with the kindness of the spirit to those who are unregenerate, the act frees your own unregeneracy as well.  Blessed is he that sees and understands and forgives." * * * * * * ... http://gabrielle.stblogs.com/2008/06/26/forgiveness-and-trust/