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.”

When Mary got to the tomb on that first Easter morning, it was still dark. Still dark. Dark as the Ukrainian night when there’s no power af...