When I am away from Liturgy for too long, I find I burn for it now, for the steadiness of the calendar, the words" that ring out in repetition, the heavy scented air. When I return each week, I am coming home again. Liturgy is written into my flesh, sinking into my skin and my spirit. Angela Doll Carlson
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
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Dorothy Day
Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this. Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is...
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E.a. Bucchianeri
We are the sum total of the decisions we have made.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...
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E.a. Bucchianeri
More Quotes By Angela Doll Carlson
But no matter what my eyes report, there is beauty that lives under the skin, under the surface, under the standards set up for me by outside arbiters of what is good and true. Those arbiters are not always so reliable. They can be bought...
The move away from writing poetry was gradual. It was a gentle slope into a muddy pond; it was a collection of choices. There was no one thing that took the pen from my hand. Life got in the way. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Poetry was an...
Sometimes, late at night, the words are only whispers— Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God. The quiet is kindness and gratitude and calm— Have mercy on me, a sinner. And I fall asleep like that, the words of the Jesus Prayer melting from English to...
When I am away from Liturgy for too long, I find I burn for it now, for the steadiness of the calendar, the words" that ring out in repetition, the heavy scented air. When I return each week, I am coming home again. Liturgy is...
