by Mary | Mar 23, 2013 | quarterly
The prayer of St. Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy; O Divine...
by Mary | Mar 23, 2013 | quarterly
All hail, ye women and ye men! All hail, ye champions of the light again. The Christ is here with love sublime, It is your line, it is mine. A shield he is not, but a full-blown power; The earth at last has come to its birth-hour. The Host from many orbs assembles To...
by Mary | Dec 5, 2012 | quarterly
First Sunday: It is now the hour for us to rise from sleep, because our salvation is nearer than when we came to believe. Mon: The powers of heaven will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming upon a cloud with great power and majesty…”look up,...
by Eric | Oct 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
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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...
by Mary | Jun 16, 2012 | quarterly
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...