mother teresa: a quote from the group today.

"God is the friend of silence. 

His language is silence. 

And he requires us to be silent to discover him. 

We need, therefore, silence to be alone with God, 

to speak to him, 

to listen to him 

and to ponder his words deep in our hearts. 

We need to be alone with God in silence
to be renewed and to be transformed."

I read in the tablet today that a book about jesus by Jose Antonio Pagola has been banned in Spain. Here is a blog entry about this book. I was immediately struck by the author's words.

In the blog entry there there is a reference to a book by Hawking about the existence of God so I went in search and came up with this relevant article by him.
While I was reading this, it struck me that the universe - since the big bang - for all those billions of years, was totally unseen by any living thing - until we came along. But how can time be registered at all if there are no creatures to live it out day by day?  It got me wondering if, perhaps, the 'urge to consciousness' is also actually a part of universal law. We, after all, made of stardust, are indeed the universe contemplating itself . . .

Here is a youtube video of a demonstration outside Quantico in support of Bradley Manning who is being held there in appalling conditions. 

today's reading at vigils:

God spoke to Moses and said to him, ‘I am the Lord. To Abraham and Isaac and Jacob I appeared as El Shaddai; I did not make myself known to them by my name THE LORD. Also, I made my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as strangers. And I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, enslaved by the Egyptians, and have remembered my covenant. Say this, then, to the sons of Israel, “I am the Lord. I will free you of the burdens which the Egyptians lay on you. I will release you from slavery to them, and with my arm outstretched and my strokes of power I will deliver you. I will adopt you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that it is I, the Lord your God, who have freed you from the Egyptians’ burdens. Then I will bring you to the land I swore that I would give to Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and will give it to you for your own; I, the Lord, will do this!”’ Moses told this to the sons of Israel, but they would not listen to him, so crushed was their spirit and so cruel their slavery.

just a very slender thought on the eucharist: 

'we are what we eat'. 

Jesus proclaims a kingdom at hand.

as he dies, it arrives and the land in which we lived as strangers becomes our own.

comment underneath a graphic video of the japanese tsunami at youtube:

OMG where is PRAYER BUTTON?????