nothing better to do

"I urge you
 to remain steadfast
in faith,
so that at last
we will all reach heaven
and there rejoice together."

st. andrew kim taegon (martyr)   +1846

la pan por el pelegrino

What Christ gives us
 is quite explicit
 if his own words
are interpreted
according
 to their Aramaic
 meaning.

The expression
'This is my Body'
  means
this is myself.

- karl rahner

ecstacy in the gut

Moses has experienced pure, wild, cosmic joy, he has known the love that is in everything and the fear and death that is in everything.

 -pinchas sadeh   +1994

to know oneself in boredom

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

 - e.m. cioran

we all need something

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion.
In America it seems rather to be science.

   -johan huizinga    +1945

question the theory

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world
is the way in which bogus theories
 are given the force of dogma.

 - jean cardinal danielou  (jesuit, theologian, prelate)

hope for the wayward

“We, today, have a language to celebrate waywardness, but we do not have a cultural language to bring people back home.”

– Makoto Fujimura –