‘How can anything good come from what is intrinsically illogical?’ ‘How much of God’s will can there still be if we have already defined it in advance?’ ‘How alive are we, as long as we have not yet died? Questions dominate the 2017 John XVII Friends Letter.
And then the British referendum turned out to be a battle between haves and have nots. With the underlying existential question: do you expect to
It is precisely a Christmas that is ‘completely different from what we want’ to put us on the trail of the deepest meaning of the Christmas story. Can open us to the birth of the Christ child, also in us.
Man runs after his own drama. And wonders, ‘what am I so busy with?’.
Monk’s work described in one word: detachment. Dying to self is at the heart of the spiritual journey. Read here what the Franciscan friar Richard Rohr has to say about it.
The management of this company feels at home here and the reunion is warm. ‘You can set up a branch here,’ I joke. “That would be a good idea,” says the director, “a refuge”. Read more here.
When we talk about ‘denial’, we mean that someone does not want to face a wound, a loss, a form of inner blackness. On the
