De La Mennais Brothers: Making Jesus Christ better known and loved by young people

Another post in response to friend David Kralik (see his blog linked below): http://myoblatereflections.blogspot.com/2019/12/hermitage-notes-returning-to-womb.html That's a very interesting idea - the return to the womb + the cyclical nature of existence. Our annual 1 week retreat and termly recollection days perform a similar function. Sabbatical years also. In fact, Sundays themselves too. More + more I'm feeling the call to make my attitude during such times (a greater willingness to learn + to listen to God in my heart, allowing myself to be recreated) my default daily attitude in the world where I am, to live the womb experience in my place of mission. Daily recreation. It can be tough. Takes great humility + spiritual detachment. Clay in the potter's hands. Your blog also made me think of T. S. Eliot's "Little Gidding" esp. this passage in the last section: "We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring  Will be to arrive w...

A moving blog post from my sister Mo over at  Catholicism in the 21st Century : T.S. Eliot speaks of God Catholic in 21st Century - Mo Friday I was reading a T.S. Eliot poem on-line, Little Gidding , searching for a quote I  wanted, and when the words of a friend's passing came to my ears the poem became  a prayer. V …With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, unremembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always— A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And al...