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2018-12-19T00:32:58-04:00

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Compline — Prayer for the Closing of the Day

Last updated on: December 19, 2018 at 12:32 am By Carl "Skye" McColman

This video presents a service of Compline, sung live by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, England, under the direction of Graham Ross, recorded in Clare College Chapel. It includes an Introit by the sixteenth century composer, Robert White (1538-1574), Christe qui Lux es et Dies. It also includes an anthem by the nineteenth century composer, Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901), Abendlied. Compline is the final liturgical prayer office of the day. It represents the final prayers that anyone praying the Divine Office (the Liturgy of the Hours) prays before... Read more

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2018-12-19T00:30:56-04:00

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Essential Writings from Two Important Living Catholic Authors

Last updated on: December 19, 2018 at 12:30 am By Carl "Skye" McColman

Orbis Books has a long-standing collection of books called the “Modern Spiritual Masters Series.” With over sixty titles to date, this series anthologizes writings from key spiritual authors of the 20th and 21st centuries, ranging from Thomas Merton to Evelyn Underhill, from Dorothy Soelle to Howard Thurman. While the featured authors are mostly Christian, other significant figures appear as well, such as Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama. Modern Spiritual Masters Books are excellent introductions and career-spanning overviews of some... Read more

2018-12-19T00:29:17-04:00

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How the Deserts of Egypt Inspired the Saints of Ireland

Last updated on: December 19, 2018 at 12:29 am By Carl "Skye" McColman

In the Celtic lands, you’ll find places with names like Dysart or Dysert. There’s Dysart in Scotland, a suburb of Kirkcaldy, where a Celtic holy man named St. Serf once lived. Or there’s Dysert O’Dea in Co. Clare, Ireland, the site of a monastery said to have bene founded by St. Tola in the eighth century. Others can be found, sprinkled across the land, often with some sort of connection to a saint or monastery of old. These places are... Read more

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2018-01-13T23:30:09-04:00

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When a Jesuit talked to a Franciscan (Video)

Last updated on: January 13, 2018 at 11:30 pm By Carl "Skye" McColman

Check out this video, where two of my favorite living Catholic authors — Fr. James Martin, SJ and Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM — have a chat together at a religious education congress a couple of years ago. James Martin is a Jesuit and is an editor at large of America magazine; Richard Rohr is a Franciscan and the director of the Center for Action and Contemplation. Both are widely admired, not only within the Catholic Church, but also beyond it. Martin is... Read more

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2018-12-15T16:48:24-04:00

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Can Beauty Help Us to Be More Ecumenical?

Last updated on: December 15, 2018 at 4:48 pm By Carl "Skye" McColman

Five hundred years ago this coming October, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on a church door in the University town of Wittenberg. He was just an academic interested in having a debate, but his unlikely act was the flashpoint in what we now call the Protestant Reformation. For centuries, bitterness, acrimony, mutual suspicion, and at times even violence enforced the line of separation between Catholic and Protestant. Within the last century, however, ecumenism — an effort to at least improve... Read more

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2018-12-15T16:45:27-04:00

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C. S. Lewis, Brendan the Navigator, and Evelyn Underhill

Last updated on: December 15, 2018 at 4:45 pm By Carl "Skye" McColman

In March I was one of several presenters at a symposium on C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman sponsored by Brenau University and Grace Episcopal Church in Gainesville, GA. The theme of the symposium was “Love Letters to Jack, Love Letters to God.” Here is the transcript of my talk, in which I weave together my love for C. S. Lewis — especially the Narnia stories — with two influences on him: Evelyn Underhill and St. Brendan the Navigator. Did “The... Read more

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2018-12-15T16:44:32-04:00

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A Contemplative Faith — with a Gaelic Accent!

Last updated on: December 15, 2018 at 4:44 pm By Carl "Skye" McColman

Friends, 2017 is shaping up to be the year of Celtic spirituality for me. I hope you’ll join me in exploring this lovely dimension of Christian wisdom. What, exactly, is Celtic Christianity? Sure, it’s the spirituality found in books like John O’Donohue’s Anam Cara or Esther de Waal’s Every Earthly Blessing, among many others. But still: what is it? The easiest answer to this question is: the distinctive spirituality of the Celtic peoples, which includes the people of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of... Read more

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2018-12-15T16:43:28-04:00

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How to be a Contemplative in a “Toxic” Community (Part Two)

Last updated on: December 15, 2018 at 4:43 pm By Carl "Skye" McColman

This is a continuation of a post I began yesterday — click here to read part one. I’m responding to a reader who wanted some guidance about how to be a contemplative Christian while participating in a church that is “toxic” and “cold.” Yesterday I addressed that particular question head on. Today I want to address a few additional questions that arise in response to this same issue. Here goes… What does it mean to be “active” in a church?... Read more

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2018-12-15T16:41:01-04:00

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How to be a Contemplative in a “Toxic” Community (Part One)

Last updated on: December 15, 2018 at 4:41 pm By Carl "Skye" McColman

A reader wrote the following message to me recently: Hi Carl. I’m a contemplative in a Roman Catholic Community. It’s rather toxic and cold. I don’t go to dinners or other community building events. I go to Sunday Mass regularly. Does this fulfill my community efforts at not being a “Lone Ranger” and individualist mystic? Regular readers of this blog will understand where the writer of this message is coming from. In posts like Is it possible to be a... Read more

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2018-12-15T16:39:13-04:00

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Richard Rohr on the Spirituality of Unknowing (Video)

Last updated on: December 15, 2018 at 4:39 pm By Carl "Skye" McColman

Here’s a treat for all you Richard Rohr fans (and if you’re not a Rohr fan, perhaps this is a good introduction to him and his ideas). This video was recorded at the Science and Nonduality Conference — which is a secular/interfaith gathering of folks exploring (in the words of their website) “a new relationship to spirituality, free from religious dogma, based on timeless wisdom traditions, informed by cutting-edge science, and grounded in direct experience.” Rohr, as a Catholic priest,... Read more

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