by Mary | Oct 7, 2012 | quarterly, Uncategorized
Our Daily Bread Most of us are engaged in the task of providing for the necessities of life and maintaining all the things we’ve accumulated. Yet there was a time when the main business of life was “letting go.” The important thing was being on the Way, and learning...
by Mary | Jun 20, 2012 | quarterly, Uncategorized
The time of the summer solstice has arrived again to us and as stated in the ritual “In the path of Christian mysteries, the summer solstice symbolizes a time when the aspirant endeavors to follow the cosmic Christ in his annual ascension into the high spiritual realm...
by Mary | Jun 19, 2012 | quarterly
MYSTIC (from a class by Father Paul) “Prepare, for the Bridegroom cometh.” This is the time in which a minister must have the answers. These are things he must explain, these are the things he must know and be able to understand and to explain to his people. It is...
by Mary | Jun 18, 2012 | quarterly
St. Francis 1205 As the indolent summer of 1205 turned into autumn, Francis continued to work with his father in a kind of quiet, resigned desperation, unable to envision either a bright future or a chance at either knighthood or nobility. Late one afternoon, he was...
by Mary | Jun 17, 2012 | quarterly
TRAVEL, like life, is best understood backward but must be experienced forward, to paraphrase Kierkegaard. After decades of wandering, only now does a pattern emerge. I’m drawn to places that beguile and inspire, sedate and stir, places where, for a few blissful...
