The Vibrant Channeled Creator

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

“So many criticize and say that everything is going wrong. But that’s not what the Christian is called to do; instead, he is called to deal with it, to get his or her hands dirty: first of all, as St. Paul told us, to pray, and then not to engage in idle chattering – idle chatter is a plague – but to promote good, and to build peace and justice in truth. This, too, is apostolic zeal; it is the proclamation of the Gospel; and this is Christian beatitude: ‘blessed are the peacemakers’.”
Pope Francis

It’s the birthday of John Coltrane, born in Hamlet, North Carolina (1926). When asked to describe his style, he said, “I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.” He played with Johnny Hodges, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis before forming his own quartet in 1961.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
 
“And so, let us ask ourselves: how should I behave with a person who wrongs me? Do I keep it inside and accumulate resentment? “You will pay for it”, those words which come so often: “you will pay for it…”. Do I talk about it behind their backs? “Do you know what he did?”; and so on… Or am I brave, courageous, and do I try to talk about it to him or her? Do I pray for him or her, ask for help to do good? And do our communities take care of those who fall, so that they can get back up and start a new life? Do they point their fingers or open their arms? What do you do: do you point the finger or open your arms?”

Forgiveness is in religion and society.

Probe our hearts to find it.

Forgive the holocaust.

Pray for our enemies.

Take care of those who fall so they can get back up and start a new life.

Open your arms and embrace them.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
 
“Our Lady listens to our cries and heals our sorrows. We should learn this: when there are difficulties in life, we go to our Mother; and when life is happy, we also go to our Mother to share these things. We need to go to these oases of consolation and mercy, where faith is expressed in a maternal language; where we lay down the labours of life in Our Lady’s arms and return to life with peace in our hearts, perhaps with the peace of little children.”

Stone’s other books include Children of Light (1986); Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (2007), a memoir; and Fun With Problems (2010), a book of short stories.
He said: “Writing is lonely. […] But most of the time you are in a room by yourself, you know. Writers spend more time in rooms, staying awake in quiet rooms, than they do hunting lions in Africa. So, it’s a bad life for a person because it’s so lonely and because it consists of such highs and lows, and there’s not always anywhere to take these emotional states. […] It’s a life that’s tough to sustain without falling prey to some kind of beguiling diversion that’s not good for you.”
On Robert Stone Aug 21, 2017

9/10/23 Sermon by Mother Kathleen Killian, Pastor
Trust in our love , as You trust in us, Lord. Let no debt remain, but love one another . I am indebted to love you, and you, me.
No condemnation of their souls. Love is infinitely spacious. He opened His heart to all in the dark. Jesus is us and we His own. Perfect Christian power! Serene circumstances. Conflict among those called! Christ lowers Himself,; waits in the valley to arise again.He is our bedrock and grounding! To live is to tend to the life that Jesus brought! Joy, Peace, Patience and Kindness!
A new Bishop from the West joins us together!

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2023
 
“Saint Peter Claver and, more recently, Saint Maria Bernarda Bütler gave their lives for the poorest and the most marginalized, and thus showed the path to real revolution, the evangelical one, not the ideological one, which truly sets people and societies free from the slavery of yesterday, and unfortunately, also of today. In this sense, “taking the first step”… means approaching, bending down, touching the flesh of the wounded and neglected bothers and sisters; and to do so with Christ, the Lord who became a slave for us. Thanks to him, there is hope because he is mercy and peace.”

Pope Francis

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
 
“Let us keep our gaze fixed on Mary, who in her littleness is greater than the heavens, for within her she bore the One whom the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain. Brothers and sisters, let us entrust ourselves to her, asking for a renewed zeal and an ardent love that tirelessly and joyfully bears witness to the Gospel. Onwards! Be courageous, do not tire of moving forward.”

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
 
“God is close, compassionate and tender. Closeness, compassion and tenderness: treat people like that, personally caring for them, learning their language, respecting and loving their culture, not allowing yourselves to be tempted by worldly forms of security, but remaining steadfast in the Gospel through exemplary moral and spiritual lives. Simplicity and closeness! ” Pope Francis

Your Eyes

Chimpanzee reclining in your tree,
gazing solemnly at me
through brown eyes, ancient, wise,
I wonder what you see.

We’re not so different, you and I.
I imagine, when I try,
you in clothes, me in the tree,
giving you the eye.

I wonder if your soulful gaze
is telling me you feel the days
are warmer than they used to be,
because of human ways.

Somehow things have gone awry.
I wonder if chimpanzees cry.
Your eyes, so sad, I think you know,
your world is passing by.

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