22 July 2015

Immersed in God...

I just came off a few days of retreat, refreshed, renewed and raring to go.  Here's a picture of Saint Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, where I joined some of the local folks for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament yesterday afternoon.

It is so important to take some quiet time away every once in a while. It brings one to a wonderful place, to a foretaste of how we will spend eternity, in the word of the great Carlo Caretto "immersed in God like a drop in the ocean, like a star in the immensity of night; like a lark in the summer sun or a fish in the sea.”

“The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.”   ( Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God ) Is there anything sadder than a miser...