Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!

"A [preacher] who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they are necessarily reflected in his [preaching]." — BXVI

19 January 2008

Sleep, books, Japanese metaphysics

The sleep study was a bust! The sensors wouldn't stay on for some reason. The poor tech had to come into the room several times in the...

18 January 2008

Can we be astounded?

1 st Week OT (F): 1 Sam 8.4-7, 10-22 and Mark 2.1-12 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Serra Club Mass, Church of the Incarnation The video tape...

14 January 2008

Your name is "Servant"

1 st Week OT (M): 1 Sam 1.1-18 and Mark 1.14-20 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Albert the Great Priory There you are. . .sitting in ...

13 January 2008

Smaller heroes

Baptism of the Lord (A): Isa 42.1-4, 6-7; Acts 10.34-38; Matthew 3.13-17 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Paul Hospital , Dallas , TX ...

04 January 2008

Looking for a What, or a Who?

January 4 th (A): I John 3.7-10 and Luke 1.35-42 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Serra Club Mass, Church of the Incarnation Exhausted th...

01 January 2008

Dominican Poetry Prize

For all the Dominican poet-preachers out there! Submit your work at the Fourth Annual OP Prize for Poetry. . . I will be submitting one or t...

24 December 2007

And again & again & again. . .

December 24 (Morning Mass): 2 Sam 7.1-5, 8-16 and Luke 1.67-79 Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP St Albert the Great Priory Zechariah’s tongue,...

23 December 2007

God is dead. . .now to mourn. . .

4 th Sunday of Advent: Isa 7.10-14; Rom 1.1-7; Matt 1.18-24 Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP St Paul Hospital, Dallas, TX [Wow...you can really he...

21 December 2007

Where's your Christmas face?

3 rd Week of Advent(F): Zeph 3.14-18 and Luke 1.39-45 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Serra Club & Church of the Incarnation Joseph ...

20 December 2007

A new blog. . .

Suppl(e)Mental . . .a new blog! I created this blog for my seminar on post-metaphysical theologies. . . My students and I will use this blog...

19 December 2007

Empty out to be filled up

3 rd Week of Advent (W): Judges 13.2-7, 24-25 and Luke 1.5-25 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Albert the Great Priory [One of the novices s...

17 December 2007

Root to trunk to branch to flower

3 rd Week Advent(M): Genesis 49.2, 8-10 and Matthew 1.1-17 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Albert the Great Priory Beyond tongue-tyin...

16 December 2007

Impatient? Rejoice!

3 rd Sunday of Advent(A): Isa 35.1-6, 10; James 5.7-10; Matthew 11.2-11 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Paul Hospital and Church of the I...

14 December 2007

Not for just any reason...

St. John of the Cross: 1 Cor 2.1-10 and Luke 14.25-33 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Church of the Incarnation, Univ. of Dallas A gre...

12 December 2007

The Door!

Thanks to Mark Shea I have rediscovered The Wittenburg Door! Way back in the 80's when I was a LibProt, I subscribed to the Door . The...

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