Author of many books: ‘Experiencing God’, ‘The Complete Francis of Assisi’, ‘Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart’…etc. Vermonter. Catholic married to Recon rabbi.
Jon M. Sweeney
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Howard Thurman: “There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island, and on that island there is an altar.”
This is the dust jacket of my copy of The Seven Storey Mountain. There were many hardcover printings; the book sold 600,000 copies in the first year. If you have a 1st yours reads "Author is second from the left," which got Merton in trouble. A monk was supposed to go through life in anonymity.
The sexy priest calendar. We heard about it last week on wait wait don’t tell me. Now we are in Rome and my wife won’t let me buy one.
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Just got a message from our tour guide for tomorrow saying be sure to arrive on time for your tour of the Pantheon in Rome. This gives real meaning to the prayer, God willing!
I missed St. Anthony of Padua’s feast yesterday. But remember: he was the one to keep preaching to the fish after St. Francis's death.
Good people, from ‘Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart’
With Father’s Day on the horizon, let me tell you that the world’s most popular saint, Francis of Assisi, had a broken relationship with his father at the time of his death. We all do the best we can.
Ascension of Christ, Westphalian, 14th century.
Those footprints left behind.
