People who live by the sea understand eternity. They copy the curves of the waves, their hearts beat with the tides, & the saltiness of their blood corresponds with the sea. They know that the house of flesh is only a sandcastle built on the shore,that skin breaks under the waves like sand under the [...]
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People who live by the sea
Posted in citations, pictures, poetry, tagged Becoming Light, Erica Jong, Pablo Picasso, People Who Live, poetry, The Old Fisherman on 16 May, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
knowledge
Posted in citations, poetry, tagged T.S. Eliot, The Rock on 21 March, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Bring knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death [...]
First Sunday of Lent
Posted in citations, Lent, poetry, tagged Lent, Liturgy of the Hours, Office of Readings, Psalm 1, Psalms, Psalter, The Tree of Life on 26 February, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Blessed the man who does not follow the counsels of the wicked, or stand in the paths that sinners use, or sit in the gatherings of those who mock: His delight is the law of the Lord, he ponders his law day and night. He is like a tree planted by flowing waters, that will [...]
congregation
Posted in citations, poetry, tagged LXX, Psalm 111, Psalter, Septuagint on 11 February, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Praise the Lord. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation. Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them. Full of honor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures for ever. He has gained renown [...]
captivity
Posted in citations, poetry, tagged Frederick W. Robertson, Jesus Christ, prayer on 8 February, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: My heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age, and spend them in thy service, O my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Frederick W. Robertson, 19th cent. – Andrea Mantegna, Crucifixion (1457-1459)
Ante studium
Posted in citations, poetry, tagged A Prayer Before Study, prayers, St Thomas Aquinas on 29 January, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Creator ineffabilis, qui de thesauris sapientiae tuae tres Angelorum hierarchias designasti et eas super caelum empyreum miro ordine collocasti atque universi partes elegantissime distribuisti: Tu, inquam, qui verus fons luminis et sapientiae diceris ac supereminens principium, infundere digneris super intellectus mei tenebras tuae radium claritatis, duplices, in quibus natus sum, a me removens tenebras, peccatum [...]
The Feast of the Nativity
Posted in Advent, poetry, tagged Christmas, Ephrem the Syrian, Feast of the Nativity, hymn, hymnody, St. Ephrem, Syrian, Syrian Orthodoxy on 25 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lo! The First-born has opened unto us His feast as a treasure-house. This one day in the whole year alone opens that treasure-house: come, let us make gain, let us grow rich from it, ere they shut it up. Blessed be the watchful, that have taken by force from it the spoil of Life. It [...]
First Week of Advent: Saturday
Posted in Advent, poetry, tagged Advent, hymnody, Marty Haugen, My soul in stillness waits on 3 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For you, O lord, my soul in stillness waits. Truly my hope is in you O Lord of Light, our only hope of glory, your radiance shines in all who look to you. Come light the hearts of all in dark and shadow. For you, O lord, my soul in stillness waits. Truly my hope [...]
Oh, that you would tear open the heavens and come down!
Posted in citations, poetry, tagged Advent, Book of Isaiah, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, Isaiah 64.1, Richard B. Hays, The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats on 25 November, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, that you would tear open the heavens and come down! Isaiah 64:1 Isaiah blurts out the frustration and longing that seem to be our inevitable portion as children of Adam and Eve. Frustration: in the midst of conflict and pain, we sense that something has gone terribly wrong, and we are powerless to fix [...]
Thanksgiving Prayer II
Posted in poetry, tagged Robert Burns, Scots, Scots Language, Selkirk Grace, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Prayer on 24 November, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Selkirk Grace Some hae meat and canna eat, ["have" / "cannot"] And some would eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit. ["so" / "thanked"] Trad., attributed to Robert Burns
