Jan van Ruysbroeck (or Ruusbroec; 1293 or 1294-1381) was a great fourteenth-century contemplative of the Low Countries. He wrote in the vernacular, middle Dutch, rather than Latin. He was a proponent of a “common” or mixed active and contemplative life. Of him, Evelyn Underhill said that “Ruusbroec is thought, by Read more…
Read Exodus 20:9-24 and Hebrews 12:18-29. When the Israelites were at Mt Sinai, Moses told them that the Lord would come down from the mountain in the sight of all the people. They were not to draw near: people and animals who touched the mountain were to be stoned or Read more…
And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it Read more…
Read Luke 12:32-40. In fact, just read all of Luke 12 up to verse 40. Sell your possessions, and give alms. (Luke 12:33a) What drives you to do what you do? Why do you get up in the morning and go to work? Why do you get dressed and eat Read more…