Life and Times of a 21st Century Priest
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I always love visiting Holy Hill.
This year after the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, there was a huge fire out the window. Come to find out it was a planned fire to help the fields.
It’s an imposing facade, and the National Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians.
On Easter Sunday, lots of car blessings going around…
And the crowds flowed freely….
It’ a big place…
And it’s a wonderful place to pray.
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I’ve been enjoying the site Chastity ~~ in San Francisco? — well written psychology, plus solid healing in the Catholic mystic tradition. I’m especially interested in reading about trauma and natural events, so I can continue to understand future ‘Katrina effects’ in a more wholistic fashion.
Dr. Richmond, the author, has some great insights into New Age trends such as New Age Healing : The Goddess | Catholic Christian Psychology. And he juxtaposes them against an authentic Christian spirituality.
It’s definitely worth a look see: interesting Site – with solid spirituality to boot.
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Here it is mid-Lent and I am recollecting my Lenten obligations and goals. It’s safe to say there have been a lot of distractions, but that’s life isn’t it? If one never gets beyond those things which detract from prayer, then one will probably never pray.
One thing that’s been helping is remembering the difference between meditation and contemplation. While I wish that every time the moment came for prayer I was ‘in the mood’ for prayer, and that I immediately entered into some sort of contemplative reverie and felt God’s peace flowing through me, that has simply not been happening of late. Meditation involves fixing our thoughts and concentration, filling our mind; contemplation is a gift from God which flows from meditation.
So I meditate on the holy mysteries, and consciously fill my mind with thoughts of Christ’s passion, of Mary’s sorrows, the mysteries of Scripture, the mysteries of the Faith. I’m occasionally led into a true sense of contemplation, but more often than not I’m undertaking a conscious act of the will to dwell upon, to fill my mind with, thoughts of Jesus Christ.
I’ll be following up with some of the fruits of those exercises.
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