Table of Contents
Foreword Karl Cardinal Lehrmann ix
Introduction Annemarie S. Kidder xi
Advent
The Judgment of the Son of Man 1
Festival of Faith 3
Patience with the Preliminary 5
The Trouble with Salvation History 7
Christmas
The Reply of Silence 9
The Great Joy 13
Holy Night 15
Grace in Human Depths 20
The Arrival of God into a Locked-Up World 25
New Year and Epiphany
Spiritual Account of a Year 29
In the Name of Jesus 32
About the Blessed Journey of Those Looking for God 34
Lent
Lent: My Night Knows No Darkness 41
Easter
The Beginning of Glory 48
A Faith That Loves the Earth 52
Mlysticism of the Earth 58
Corpus Christi and Pentecost
Feast of Daily Bread 61
Walk with the Lord 65
Prayer for Pentecost 69
Love for God and Neighbor
The First Commandment 72
The New Commission of the One Love 74
Bear with One Another and Forgive Each Other 85
The One Spirit-The Many Gifts
Non-Believing Christians and Christian Non-Belicvers 90
People as Prophets and the Church 92
On Not Avoiding Decisions 96
Christians in the World according to the Church Fathers 102
The Divine Mystery of Marriage 112
The Mystery of the Saints
Feast of Holy Beginnings 117
Thomas Aquinas 122
Thomas Aquinas as Monk, Theologian, and Mystic 127
Ignatius of Loyola: The Saint's Relevance for Today 134
The Mysticism of Loving All Things in the World according to Ignatius 139
Mysteries of Everyday Life
A Little Song 158
About Seeing and Hearing 160
A Prayer for Hope 167
A Theology of Everyday Life
theological Meditations on Everyday Things 172
About Work 174
About Walking 175
About Sitting Dowm 177
About Seeing 179
About Laughter 180
About Eating 181
About Sleeping 182
About the Experience of Grace in Everyday Life 184
Words for the Start of the Day
In God's Name 189
Each Day Is Unique 190
Life Is Eternally Open 191
New Day, Be Welcomed! 192
On the Feast of St. Joseph 193
On the Feast of St. Benedict 194
Sources 195
