Today is World Communion Sunday. As we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we are also receiving the Denomination’s Peace and Global Witness offering. The theme of unity in our diversity is more important than ever before. This picture reminds me of the peace that can be found in creation. It can refresh and recharge our batteries as we seek to be witnesses to God’s peace in the world today.
First Reading – Ephesians 2:14-18
Second Reading – Luke 24:28-31
Sermon – Our Call to Break Down Walls
The sun has set and the Vesper Lights flicker and glow
What a day, Lord
Walking around Louisville
Seeing sights and enjoying time with friends who are family
Discovering the Thomas Merton Center
Then a long evening of flight delays
A late night drive up the mountain
Winding down after the long day
Now as my eyelids grow heavy
I lift this humble prayer to you
Dona Nobis Pacem
Grant Us Peace
A wee prayer from the heart of your Padre…
Well said, Jake!
Gracie was around ten weeks old when we adopted her. We had gone looking for an older dog, not a puppy. An abandoned or discarded former pet less likely to be welcomed into someone else’s home. But that’s not how things worked out.
— Read on jakeowensby.com/2019/10/11/bloodlines/
The sun has set and the Vesper Lights flicker and glow
A long day of travel
Much time spent stalled on the highway
Praying that the accident victims are okay
Then some incredible time at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane
Time spent pondering the wisdom of Brother Louis (Thomas) Merton
A wonderful evening with family you choose
Or rather, family whom God chooses for you
Now as my eyelids grow heavy
I lift this humble prayer to you
Dona Nobis Pacem
Grant Us Peace
A wee prayer from the heart of your Padre../
I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think I am following your will
does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you
does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
Therefore will I trust you always though
I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Thomas Merton – “Thoughts in Solitude
“Asceticism does not ring well in modern ears . . . Yet there is still great wisdom to be discovered in the conscious choice to live with less. There is a profound gift in the invitation to ask ourselves what the things that distract us from God are.”
— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD Water, Wind, Earth, & Fire: The Practice of Praying with the Elements
“The invitation of our inner monk is to live in this counter-cultural way, to recognize the depth is stillness.”
— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom
