Singing for the Kingdom: The Last of the Homilies Book

Introduction     ix
Acknowledgements     xiv
The Monastic Life
Seeking Authentic Reality     3
Supple Love     6
Witnesses to the Transcendent     9
We Sing for the Kingdom     12
A Bonding Beauteous     15
Holy Recreation     18
True Hearing and True Speech     21
Our Impractical Life     23
Faithful to the Core     25
A Great Man of God     28
I Am a King     30
Fantasy Versus Reality     32
Is God Less Creative than Man?     36
Mysteries of Faith and Life
Our Just Desserts?     41
Trust in God's Mercy     43
Traces of the Trinity     45
Coincidence? Or Angels?     48
Ponder the Great Mysteries of the Faith     51
Three Kinds of Waiting     54
A Glorious Prelude     56
Who Do You Say He Is?     58
The Deepest of Mysteries     61
Living the Faith
Begin in Your Own Heart     65
Christ-like Forgiveness     68
Foresight     70
The Master Key     73
Even There, Even Then: I Am with You     76
Moral Power     79
"Do You Love Me?"     82
Light of the World, Salt of the Earth     84
Visions of the Real and the Unreal     87
A God of Mercy     89
The Mass
The Greatest of the Sacraments     93
The Name of the Game     96
Climbing the Tree     98
Acting Out Vicarious Guilt     101
The Curtain     104
Mary
The New Eve     109
Both Darkness and Light     112
Death and Beyond
A Lovely Flower Unfolding     117
O Death, Where Is Thy Sting     120
Our Names Are Written in Heaven     123
Rehearsal for Reality     126