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Welcome to our first Online Retreat!
Each day of the retreat (from now until sundown, August 16) will be found on its own page, and this notice will remain at the top of the “blog proper” until the retreat ends. In the interest of promoting interior silence, comments will be turned off.
RETREAT START , beginning at Sundown, August 10, may be found here .
— First meditation (Sunday Night) is here .
MONDAY AUGUST 11
— Morning
As I noted in the post below , the purpose of this retreat is pretty much the same purpose as any other retreat - it is the mindful and voluntary creation of time and space, into which one steps, as through a portal. Like a portal, it is meant to take you somewhere outside of the ordinary, day-to-day worries, concerns, duties, obsessions, have-to’s and compulsion...
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Free Speech, Liberals, Eugenics, Move America!From: theanchoressonline.com
Post Date: 2008-06-26 08:02:54
I need a cat. Or maybe another puppy to keep the collie company!
Blogging will be light and probably not so political.
Although…as long as I’m posting this…
Is free speech really such a tough concept? Three pieces yesterday on a Huffpo writer admonishing The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart for daring to make jokes about Obama that have any sort of substance to them . Stewart is apparently only to gently mock Obama, and only when doing so also mocks J...
more Vocation watch: New sisters & brothers & WYDFrom: theanchoressonline.com
Post Date: 2008-07-17 15:48:03
Benedict XVI in Oz
Great coverage of World Youth Day 2008, in Australia , can be found at EWTN . Meanwhile…
It’s that time of year - postulants become novices, second-year novices make first vows, and so forth -
here are some of the first out the gate:
The very lovely Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Los Angeles have brought two novices into the novitiate and celebrate three novices into first profession. Links go to slideshows of The Novitia...
more Alas, hypocrites! Hat tips all around!From: theanchoressonline.com
Post Date: 2008-07-18 16:15:07
Almost everything I am linking to today is thanks to either Larwyn or Maggie’s Farm . Great resources!
The Doc is In links to Donald Sensing who writes excellently about the positive side of hypocrisy:
The true hypocrite wants others to think better of him/her than is actually justified. Absent this deceit, there is no hypocrisy, just error or human frailty. That’s what the hypocrisy-excuse people don’t understand - or pretend not to understand - about church peop...
more Perhaps Ed will be my running mateFrom: theanchoressonline.com
Post Date: 2008-07-19 20:31:40
This drafting has taken me completely by surprise!
If nominated, I will not run; if elected I will not serve…I will suspend my campaign! My concession, however, will cost Sen. Obama 20 Million dollars.
If I don’t concede, however, I will consider Ed for my running mate ; he can help me with the techno crowd!
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