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  1. Akita Suggagaki

    God's Perfection

    Reading Thomas Merton Ascent of Mt Carmel p 92-93. Help me wrap my head around this. https://stmaryscathedral.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/11288825.pdf "But there exists no word, no idea, that can contain the reality of God. We must never talk about the wisdom and justice and power and even...
  2. Akita Suggagaki

    Pope Leo XIV: What Happened, Why, and What it Means for Catholic Social Thought and U.S. Public Life

    Pope Leo XIV brings to the papacy his roots in the United States, an Augustinian religious vocation, decades of ministry in a poor diocese in Peru, and service to Pope Francis at the Vatican. He began his papacy by calling for peace, mercy, and justice in our hurting world. He spoke of the...
  3. Akita Suggagaki

    Pascal and Divertissement

    "Chief among these ego-protective devices is divertissement (distraction or diversion), Pascal’s term for our continual need and almost addictive tendency to seek out mindless or soul-numbing forms of entertainment and amusement. Such “distractions” may sometimes involve behavior that is immoral...
  4. Akita Suggagaki

    Just trying to obey the law

    "A priest happened to be going down that road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. Likewise a Levite came to the place, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side." Luke 10 Trying to stay pure and obey the law, and yet missing the point of the law. Let's not...
  5. Akita Suggagaki

    Urge Congress: Save Public Media

    Public media is more at risk now than ever before. Despite overwhelming public opposition, the House passed a rescissions package that would eliminate $1.1 billion in already-approved funding for public media. If enacted, it would strip essential services from communities nationwide — and could...
  6. Akita Suggagaki

    False Mysticism

    "We are living in a time when false mysticism is a much greater danger than rationalism. It has now become much easier to play on men’s emotions with a political terminology that sounds religious than with one that sounds scientific. This is all the more true in an age in which the religious...
  7. Akita Suggagaki

    Care of Creation

    Church adds Mass 'for care of creation' to missal, pope to celebrate The Mass formulary begins with the entrance antiphon from Psalm 19: "The heavens declare the glory of God; the firmament proclaims works of his hands."...
  8. Akita Suggagaki

    Addressing the Hospital Boarding Crisis in the US—Time to Act

    Boarding, the practice of holding patients in the emergency department (ED) while awaiting an inpatient bed, is associated with myriad harms that are magnified in older adults, who are also at risk for delirium, functional decline, and death.1,2 Nonetheless, older adults are more likely to...
  9. Akita Suggagaki

    Imagine being Joseph of Arimathea

    Luke 23:50–56 50 Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph, who, though a member of the council, had not agreed to their plan and action. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea, and he was waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God. Imagine being in the minority. His brothers in...
  10. Akita Suggagaki

    Meditation/Contemplation

    Some methods have been around a very long time. What have you used? Was it helpful. Do you still use it?
  11. Akita Suggagaki

    Divine Office Liturgy of the Hours

    Do many others here pray the Divine Office? Since most of us are not in religious community we re pretty much on our own with it in the midst of busy secular life. For me it has been foundational. There are dats when I do not pray it. Sometimes only a part of it. Sometimes only a psalm...
  12. Akita Suggagaki

    Plants That Do Not Need Soil

    For some reason I am all of a sudden into this. The look so pure and lovely in clear vase with clean water. And almost no trouble to care for them. https://www.thespruce.com/houseplants-grown-in-water-4177520
  13. Akita Suggagaki

    The Letter (A film about Laudato Si)

    The Letter tells the story of a journey to Rome of frontline leaders to discuss the encyclical letter Laudato Si’ with Pope Francis. The exclusive dialogue with the Pope, included in the film, offers a revealing insight into the personal history of Pope Francis and stories never seen since he...
  14. Akita Suggagaki

    Dignity Therapy

    https://www.medicinanarrativa.eu/dignity-therapy-protocol-reaffirming-dignity-in-care-contexts Dignity Therapy Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov Would you like to tell me a little about your life history; particularly the parts that you either remember most or think are the most important? When did...
  15. Akita Suggagaki

    I don't fit well anywhere

    I think we need to Tighten borders but create a better path to citizenship for people who have been here working. Breaking families apart is barbaric. Allow Civil union as a civil right but leave Marriage to churches as sacrament or church recognized union. Better care for the environment...
  16. Akita Suggagaki

    Trump Making Same Mistake as Obama

    They seem to forget that they govern the entire country and not just those who voted for them. Then they push a very extreme and specific agenda. Naturally there is resistance and backlash. Next thing you know we have the opposite in office. Too bad the cycle goes on and on.
  17. Akita Suggagaki

    Spiritual Direction

    Have you ever had Spiritual Direction? When I first started I really did not have the slightest idea of what it was about. Then I read The Practice of Spiritual Direction way back in the late1980's...
  18. Akita Suggagaki

    What Can We Really do?

    For those of us who feel that our government is being dismantled, turned upside down and perhaps irreparably damaged, what can we do? Posting here is useless. In fact any social media is pointless. We can get involved at our local level politics but that is unrelated to the bigger picture...
  19. Akita Suggagaki

    Questions regarding The Sudden Death of Thomas Merton

    Martin Luther King assassinated 4/4/1968 Bobby Kennedy assassinated 6/6/1968 Sudden death of Thomas Merton 12/16/1968 Coincident? Conspiracy theory? I think there is more to it.
  20. Akita Suggagaki

    St. Joseph of Cupertino

    Joseph of Cupertino is most famous for levitating at prayer. Joseph’s tendency to levitate during prayer was sometimes a cross; some people came to see this much as they might have gone to a circus sideshow. Joseph’s gift led him to be humble, patient, and obedient, even though at times he was...
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