Oh no!

I completely forgot today is brother Benedict's day...

Gulai, so fleeting are the signs. If I don't write them down, I just forget them in five millinanodecaseconds. I already forgot half of this one.

Yeah. So the computer's been on since Friday night. It's nearly 3:40 AM Sunday. And oddly I fell asleep while using the computer. Very, very odd. Because I never do that.

And the only tab-a-licious window left open since that Friday night is this page I was intending to read on Eucharistic Adoration.

Anyway, I was reading something about Harry Potter, and this is the part I forgot, but there was some "coincidence" when I came across the following to jump out at me as strikingly related...

Given that here in Tulsa I have dedicated myself to a Benedictine life marked by the particular charism of adoration of the Eucharistic Face of Christ, these words of Pope Benedict XVI are, for me, very compelling. What does one do in Eucharistic adoration if not hold one's gaze directly towards God? The other component of this particular charism is that if I seek to hold my gaze fixed on the Eucharistic Face of God, it is, first of all, for my brother priests, and especially for those whose gaze has, for one reason or another, been distracted -- literally, pulled away from -- the One Thing Necessary. This is where adoration and reparation meet. (found here)

And I was wondering why lately something has been missing severely. It was because someone was being missed :(

BUT TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY to usher in

the old cliche

yipee ca yo ca yay

To digress, I read on.

More often than not the search for God begins with a search for those who seek God. It has always been thus in the life of the Church in both East and West. The faithful come to monasteries looking for fathers and mothers for their souls. People seek out monks and nuns hoping to see on their faces a reflection of the brightness of God. By virtue of monastic profession, we are called to hold our faces directly toward God. "For it is the God who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ" (2 Cor 4:6).

I think that's one thing I've been doing when looking at the Alliance.

Right now, I need to fix some things. Wait, my mistake, my Mama Mary will do it kindly.

Like staying up suuuuper late. And going against the natural order of things.