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 Ordinary Time 2009
Peace and Good in Christ!
After Pentecost we move back into Ordinary Time. This is fitting.
After the great season of Lent, Holy Week, The Triduum, Ascension, and Pentecost, we need to apply these great spiritual realities to everyday life. We are called to discipline our western hedonism daily through simple living, chastity, and obedience. We face emotional trials associated with the ups and downs of daily life, or the suffering and the loss of loved ones frequently in life, especially as we get older. We experience the joy of seeing the resurrections of life when good things come after seemingly hopeless periods. We have our faith in the divine gift of God in our life confirmed through the various "ascensions" of seeing things that come from God return to Him in glory. Lastly, we experience the gift of the power and gentleness of the Holy Spirit, the inspirations and the respirations of the Breath of God, as our spirits are born again in Christ. Most importantly, we are called to daily to let go of the "old self" of ego attachments and pride so that a completely new spiritual way of being is humbly born again. All of this happens to us day in, and day out.
Most of these spiritual realities come through the most ordinary events of life. They are usually nothing special. But they are important.
At the monastery we say that one must learn how to "grow a green bean for God" before we make any real spiritual progress. We must learn to find God in the soil of the earth if we are to really find Him in heaven. We must find Him in ordinary people before we can find him in the extraordinary things of the Spirit. If we cannot get along with coworkers or bosses, the chances are that we really do not yet know Jesus. We may know about Jesus, but we do not yet really know Jesus.
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Pentecost 2009
An Easter Manifesto 2009
Index of JMT Reflections
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Read about Little Portion's 25th Anniversary celebration
and the groundbreaking for the new monastery!
We have been blessed by donations and coverage to allow us to build the new monastery, but we still need money to furnish it properly. This primarily includes the seating for the new church. We need good congregational seating, and a monastic choir. Simple, yet comfortable enough to allow elderly to stay during the three daily services. These will be made of quality wood in order to survive their rugged use through the upcoming years.
We also will need help with the initial landscaping costs to heal the wound of, both the fire, and the building process. What is planned is simple, but beautiful. We want to provide a restful environment for residents and guests.
Please consider helping generously with these needs. We really want to build something that all our friends and supporters will be proud of, and will want to visit in order to pray, worship, and fellowship with us at the Hermitage.
- John Michael Talbot
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First Concrete Poured!
Peace and Good in Christ!
On the feast of one of the Hermitage's patrons, St. Romuald , the founder of the Camaldolese Order of monks and hermits, and the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, we made the first pour of the concrete slab that will be the floor of the New Monastery.
It is exciting!! It is as if we are being "grounded" in these two great realities of the need for solitude and silence, and the need for a heart of great love and compassion for all people.
As Evagrius, the great writer of the spirituality of the desert, said, we must be "separated from all, and united with all" And we "renounce all to gain everything."
In Jesus,
John Michael Talbot
Founder, and Spiritual Father
The Brothers and Sisters of Charity at Little Portion Hermitage
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