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Contemplative Life
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Welcome
A contemplative life in the modern world demands a struggle for space. Here is a small part of that hard-won space.
Contemplation is a phenomenon of the active subject or will; an awakening from the dream of empiricism and its associated passivity.
Desire for a contemplative life is born of a discontent with the secular. It emerges from the feeling that the world is a falsely imposed limit to mind and our abstract oppressor.
Contemplation is the active search for self-knowledge, for God and for God's desire to become known to us.
Christianity challenged epistemological hubris. The new covenant released us from the role of passive spectator. Instead of discovering the world as it is, we are free to see the world as it ought to be. God is no longer a reality who already is, but the God who is begotten in us.
This is a new web site. Hopefully, as it builds, the rebellion and challenge of the active subject will find a little space in The Contemplative Life.
Pictured above: St. Romuald by Fra Angelico. Romuald was from Ravenna and urged contemplation through solitude, silence and fasting. He died in 1027.
Contemplative Life.
Launched 18th June 2009.
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The Tenth Station.
I’m nothing. Gone is the time for pretence.
Against the stripping hand there’s no defence.
The stations of the cross: an old devotion of the Contemplative Life.
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The Ninth Station.
Breathless, speechless, the way’s to be endured
And suffered in pain; and yet, for us all,
The way to our Golgatha is assured,
Despite another fall, the final fall.
The stations of the cross: an old devotion of the Contemplative Life.
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