Taste & See the Goodness of God!
Beginning Today
We need a means to encourage the soul, to nourish it and raise it over itself. The means of all means is the Spirit who vivifies and makes it fruitful…This Spirit becomes the breath of the soul…would to God each one may exclaim, “I begin today!” St. Madeleine Sophie Barat-Conference Amiens, 1841
Remembering Katrina
As we approach the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on August 29th, I shared a few of my reflections in an article published in the Clarion Herald Catholic newspaper, the Catholic paper for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, on Wednesday, July 16th.When Hurricane Katrina made its way into the Gulf of Mexico five years ago, I clearly remember the book that I was using for daily meditation: “Finding God in All Things” by William A. Barry S.J.In this classic rendering of St. Ignatius’ spiritual [...]
A Garden of Gardenia
"In all things of nature there is something marvelous." (Aristotle) The windows blinds opened this morning to a marvelous sight: a gardenia bush in my garden was full of flowers. Sweet delight. Enough flowers to make any gardener dizzy and any house no longer in need of air freshener for weeks. Not that I use that fabricated chemically concocted stuff. I don't. A Southern home loves a good sprig of gardenia to remind itself about who it is, where it [...]
