
Advent, Solstice and the Apophatic Divinity
We have spoken about the feminine side to advent, a time of waiting, of pregnancy, of gestating in the dark. The Godhead is feminine and is grounded
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We have spoken about the feminine side to advent, a time of waiting, of pregnancy, of gestating in the dark. The Godhead is feminine and is grounded

There is something feminine and maternal about Advent and winter. One reader of our daily meditations wrote in the Comments section a few days ago about

Merton says that silence is necessary and churches should provide plenty of it: Let there always be quiet, dark places in which people can take refuge. Places

Today, December 10, is the anniversary of Thomas Merton’s entering the monastery in 1940 and also the 54th anniversary of his untimely death. About the

In this season of winter and darkness and advent, we continue our meditation with Meister Eckhart on repose, keeping in mind the Biblical statement that forms the

Two days ago in our daily meditations, we spoke of how winter and the darkness “contain their own wisdom and lessons, one of which is silence

November 28, 2022. On Grief Work, Youth Work, and Adam Bucko’s New Book.In this meditation, in the wake of the shootings at the Colorado gay

A return to the dark is also a return to our origins. Most of us were conceived in the dark, lived our first nine months in

This time of advent and of winter and of solstice approaching affords us an invitation to enter into the darkness, the darkness of our souls

In light of the mass shooting at the gay club in Colorado Springs and other murders among college students this past week in America, we
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