Tag: Daniel Berrigan

Clarity

One ought to be clear about at least a few matters — war, capital killing, aborting the unborn!  Isaiah invites such clarity, and in a sense, leaves to us the conclusions, the details, the issues. …

Today’s One-Liner (#197)

To pray the psalms with even half a heart was to be comforted and discomfited, set in motion, set in stillness, set free, set on edge, led outside, led within.  –Daniel Berrigan, Uncommon Prayer: A…

Each and Every

Therefore we take joy in all  the living, the unborn, the rejected and despised, those declared expendable, the aged (so often also unwanted).  We welcome them all!  We rejoice in each and every one!  –Daniel…

Life in the United States of Amnesia

So we plod along, more or less in the dark, more or less humiliated by the dreary quality of our prayer, our worship  by turns inane and trivial, our sense of the holy vitiated, distracted,…

A Jesuit’s Advice

Part of the trouble is that so few who walked out landed anywhere. Frying pan to fire; they left the church and the culture swallowed them whole. It seems better, as a rule, to hang…

Recent Reading

Sohrab  Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos Thomas à  Kempis, The Imitation of Christ Wendell Berry, Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ’s Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness…

Counter-the Culture

The highest way of living for those who take the tonsure is to aim to lack nothing while owning nothing. —Yoshida Kenkô, Essays in Idleness, translated by Meredith McKinney If you wish to possess everythingYou must…

Cheer Up: Reminders

Furnace. The first evening, about 5 o’clock, the pain from the extreme heat, exhaustion, and headaches make me completely lose control of my movements. I can’t lower the furnace damper. A coppersmith jumps up and…