Interrupting the Silence

Tag: Interior Life

  • A Word In The Wilderness Of Life – An Advent Sermon On Luke 3:1-6

    A Word In The Wilderness Of Life – An Advent Sermon On Luke 3:1-6

    When was the last time you were in the wilderness of life? Maybe you are there today.  We all come to wilderness times in our life. Sometimes the choices we make bring us to the wilderness. Sometimes the actions or words of others send us there. And sometimes it’s circumstances beyond our control that take Read more

  • First, Do No Harm – A Sermon On Mark 9:38-50

    First, Do No Harm – A Sermon On Mark 9:38-50

    Jesus is once again asking us to look at ourselves, to be self-reflective. It’s as if he saying to John, “Don’t you worry about that other guy. You worry about yourself.” He’s asking us to look within. The greatest stumbling blocks are not outside us but within us: anger and revenge, the judgments we make… Read more

  • A Sower Went Out To Sow – A Sermon on Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

    A Sower Went Out To Sow – A Sermon on Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

    So here’s what I am wondering. Might you and I be sowers of seed? When we hear or read this parable we are pretty quick to judge ourselves or others as one of the four types of ground: the beaten path, the rocky ground, thorny terrain, or good soil. But have you ever thought of… Read more

  • Call to the Inner Life – Remembering Evelyn Underhill

    Originally posted on Interrupting the Silence: Sometime around 1931 Evelyn Underhill wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang (1928-1942), about the inner life of the clergy. Her concern was that the multiplicity of the clergy’s duties had diminished some priests’ grounding in a life of prayer. Underhill’s concerns are as relevant… Read more

  • Spiritual Formation – The Missional Challenge and Future of the Church

    I suspect that many parishes, priests, and lay persons may not consider spiritual formation as a means of or opportunity for outreach. Instead, parish outreach tends to focus on corporal needs such as hunger, homelessness, poverty, health care, visiting the sick and imprisoned, and issues of justice. This most certainly must continue. It was a Read more

  • Evelyn Underhill – Call to the Inner Life

    Sometime around 1931 Evelyn Underhill wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang (1928-1942), about the inner life of the clergy. Her concern was that the multiplicity of the clergy’s duties had diminished some priests’ grounding in a life of prayer. Underhill’s concerns are as relevant today, perhaps more so, as they Read more

  • The Interior Life – To Ascend We Must First Dive

    The ladder to the Kingdom is hidden within you, and within your soul. Dive down into yourself, away from sin, and there you will find the steps by which you can ascend. – St. Isaac of Syria For most of us the way up is by climbing the the ladder of success. This almost always Read more