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Blessings Peace and Harmony

  This latest CD of Gregorian Chant by the Benedictine monks at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert near Abiquiu, New Mexico really hits the spot as a spiritual pick-me-up most anytime of the day.

Apart from the calming and meditative qualities of the overall chant presentation on this CD, each Latin chant itself can be individually enjoyed for its own stark and austere simplicity and beauty. This is very much in keeping with the life led by these desert brothers at the monastery once visited by Thomas Merton in 1968 before his untimely death in Asia.


  
Weekly Reading 
John Main

 

READINGS

May 27, 2012

  

From John Main, OSB, "Beyond All Images," THE WAY OF UNKNOWING (New York: Crossroad, 1990), pp. 41-43.

 

After Meditation from Willigis Jager, SEARCH FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE : Essays and Reflections on the Mystical Experience (Liguori, MO: Triumph, 1995), 137.

 

The point of contact with God is here and now because there is nothing that might not be divine. Here and now is also hell. Heaven and hell are separated only by our ego. If we can abandon the ego, we can enter the kingdom of God. There are no magical rituals that take us there, only the dying of our false ego. Only love gives us the power to abandon everything so as to enter into this new order of being.

 

 

 

  

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         Fr. Laurence Freeman- Audio Teaching
                   Retreat  'Love & Desire' 
 
 

This weeks talk - (Dealing With Betrayal )  8 minutes  

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"We don't desire happiness enough"
St Augustine
With these words of St. Augustine, Fr. Laurence begins our journey through the pitfall of life- searching for truth, happiness and love.  Desiring everything, we neglect to understand the difference between our needs and desires so that we can love in the true sense of agape.  

 To Hear Fr. Laurence's Audio Teaching 'Dealing With Betrayal' Click on this Link   

   

     

This  4CD set can be purchased in its entirety by clicking the following link or keying in item #8118   Weekly Readers Discounted price.$14.95  For more information or to order 'Love & Desire" click on this link  

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  A Way in the Wilderness
A Commentary on the Rule of Benedict for the Physically and Spiritually Imprisoned.

This is an entirely fresh and original interpretation of The Rule of St. Benedict for people today.  James Bishop was imprisoned for serious offenses.  While there he discovered the Rule and absorbed it into his own life.  The circumstances gave him a very particular understanding of it.

Item # 9138
Cover Price $19.95
Contemplative Life Sale Price $15.95 

 

  

   
 
Thank you for your continued readership and support
 
Sincerely,
Joe Doerfer