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Summer Quarterly – Mystic (Father Paul)

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...

Summer Quarterly – St. Francis 1205

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...

Summer Quarterly – Where Heaven & Earth Come Closer

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...

Summer Quarterly – From the journal of Admiral Byrd

Creation comes into being from Saut (Sound) and from Saut spreads all Light   -Shamas Tabres In 1934, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd immured himself near the Bolling advance weather base somewhere between Little America and the South Pole.  There alone in a small...

Summer Quarterly – Walt Whitman

One Thought Ever at the Fore   One thought is ever at the fore— That is the Divine Ship, the World, Breasting time and space. All peoples of the globe together sail, Sail the same voyage, Are bound to the same destination.                              From Leaves of...