Category: Thoughts from the Hermitage

As the pandemic winds down we here at the hermitage watch for signs of a new world order.  The feast of John the Baptist’s birth

During these Easter weeks the liturgy draws from Acts of the Apostles and John’s version of the multiplication of the loaves.  A reflection follows. Paul

‘In perfect contemplation we don’t do anything ourselves. Neither do we labour, nor do we bargain, nor is anything else necessary – because everything else

WHOEVER KNOWS HOW TO DIE IN ALL, WILL HAVE LIFE IN ALL. SAYINGS OF LIGHT AND LOVE 160 JOHN OF THE CROSS WHOEVER FLEES PRAYER

Is secularism the last word?  Is God dead?  The banal God is dead.  The God of rules and the forbidden, and of narrow definitions.  The