Last week's reflection

I did in fact finish writing my reflection in time for the first Mass on Saturday evening last week, but the rest of the weekend and week were busy enough that I'm only now getting around to posting it.

Much of this expresses my current musings on what I've been reading from Christian mystics; I heartily recommend Bernard McGinn's compilation, The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism, to anyone interested in pursuing this (much) more deeply. He introduces the authors and their context brilliantly, and has selected profound nuggets of a few core pages each from a huge range of sources. It's heavy going, though: profound ideas aren't easily assimilated!

( Here we go... )