It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery. Jerusalem Jackson...

In our secret yearnings we wait for your coming, and in our grinding despair we doubt that you will. And in this privileged place we are...

Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. Thomas Merton *** Image:...

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own...

‘The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty. A human life is worth as much as the respect it holds for the...

‘And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to...

‘God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way that...

‘For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the...

‘As you step up to the ridgeline, the world to the west suddenly appears before you, a colossal expanse even more wild and remote than...

“The strange resonant word instar describes the stage between two successive moults [of a caterpillar], for as it grows, a caterpillar…...

‘Have peace in your heart and thousands around you will be saved’ Attributed to Saint Seraphim [Seraphim of Sarov [Russian: Серафим...

Fervently I pray Thy strong protection Hold Thou me firmly in Thy hand. Celtic prayer *** Image: Celtic Cross, Culross Abbey, Fife,...

When mystery hides Thee from the sight of faith and hope When pain turns even love to dust; When life is bitter to the taste and our song...

That we too may come to the picnic With nothing to hide, join the dance As it moves in perichoresis Turns about the abiding tree From...

'I am calmed because I know You love me Because You love me, nothing can move me from my peace Because You love me, I am as one to whom...

‘When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants,...

‘The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me’ Meister Eckhart [Eckhart von Hochheim, c1260 – c1328] ***...

‘Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just...

‘Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to...

‘And I will make for you on that day a covenant with the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the creeping things of the ground;...