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"Before the beautiful-no, not really before but within the beautiful-the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar

"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery o'Connor

"Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, stewards of the new day that is dawning."
- NT Wright

"When we think our brother or sister has sinned against us, such an affront is not just against us but against the whole community. A community established as peaceful cannot afford to let us relish our sense of being wronged without exposing that wrong in the hopes of reconciliation."
- Stan Hauerwas

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
- Thomas Merton

"All the believers were of one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possesions was their own, but they shared everything that they had."
- Acts of the Apostles

"For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself."
- St. Augustine

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The Eucharist of the Early Christians

The Collected Short Stories, Flannery o'Connor

The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy

(have read)

Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II

God is Near Us, Pope Benedict XVI

Heretics/Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton

Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barret Browning

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Suggestions?

I am to write a chapter for an upcoming book published by a group of people known as the "brat pack." What all that entails, I am not sure of yet. I am not entirely sure where I want to go with this, so I thought I would bounce a couple ideas off of your unsuspecting little e-heads.

My first thought is to write a more personal bit. My own spitituality. More specifically, my gradual and continuing transition into a more liturgical approach to faith. My recent visit to Vine and Branches was a very encouraging time for me. A community can be both intimate and traditional. Who would have guessed? Well, I would write on my observations of this tradition and why I feel that it is right for me to move this direction... Thoughts?

Local Ecumenics. I know that there is a fancy name for this, I am just unsure of what it's called. Oh yah, being the church! Communion at the denominational level is fine and dandy, but for all you evangelicals, when was the last time you invited your Catholic sisters and brothers over for a meal and joined together in prayer at the end? That applies to everyone. I am guilty of prejudice against various branches of the faith (some justified, in my view, others not...) and could work on that. This would end up being more of a confessional than anything... Thoughts?

That's it. I'm 110% open to suggestions!

posted by -mike- at 12:44 PM

 

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