Embracing a spiritual life in the margins.
This month, think of the threads that have been woven in your life creating the fabric with the communion of saints. Are any more as an observer than a participant? How can we each continue our thread weaving into the fabric of the communion of saints?
Today is the feast day of Saint Kevin who is one of the first saints that helped me to a different way of seeing my participation with saints....
“but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’” (John 4:14)
“I thirst...”
“ ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega’, says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Who is an outcast?
“Then he said to them all, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it. What does it profit them if …
“By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,” Galatians 5:22
A Monday Minute happens on a Tuesday when Monday is April Fools Day. People tend to not take things seriously on April Fools Day ... All joking aside, this month the donation to an organization that is doing spiritual work that reaches everyone, even the Outcasts and Saints is Center for Action and Contemplation.
Lent is a time when we set aside a time of year to remember that we are dust and to dust we will return. It can be a time of humble awareness of who we are as a part of our communities. It is no surprise, that during a time of year we are reminded …
