Bodmin Hermit
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Franciscan Hermit. Retired Hospice Chaplain. C of E, but multifaith contemplative stance. Silence, Poems, Prayers and Promises.
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Luckily, “ECSTACY” has the same meaning today that it has always had, a going-out-of-oneself. Moreover, for both contemporaries and medievals, ecstasy is intimately connected with love, and an “attraction to the good.” (God)
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Luckily, “ECSTACY” has the same meaning today that it has always had, a going-out-of-oneself. Moreover, for both contemporaries and medievals, ecstasy is intimately connected with love, and an “attraction to the good.” (God)
EASY ECSTACY
When we experience ecstasy it comes not by accident, but as a taste of what life is meant to be. Those times when we're grounded in our body, pure in heart, clear in mind and rooted in our soul, are our birthright, and our wonder of being. Kids do it all the time!
When we experience ecstasy it comes not by accident, but as a taste of what life is meant to be. Those times when we're grounded in our body, pure in heart, clear in mind and rooted in our soul, are our birthright, and our wonder of being. Kids do it all the time!
November 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
EASY ECSTACY
When we experience ecstasy it comes not by accident, but as a taste of what life is meant to be. Those times when we're grounded in our body, pure in heart, clear in mind and rooted in our soul, are our birthright, and our wonder of being. Kids do it all the time!
When we experience ecstasy it comes not by accident, but as a taste of what life is meant to be. Those times when we're grounded in our body, pure in heart, clear in mind and rooted in our soul, are our birthright, and our wonder of being. Kids do it all the time!
HERMIT RULE 15:
Convert yourself into a disciple who knows how to listen and discern. On many occasions sounds manifest silence. Indeed, the important thing is not what arrives but how we receive it.
Convert yourself into a disciple who knows how to listen and discern. On many occasions sounds manifest silence. Indeed, the important thing is not what arrives but how we receive it.
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
HERMIT RULE 15:
Convert yourself into a disciple who knows how to listen and discern. On many occasions sounds manifest silence. Indeed, the important thing is not what arrives but how we receive it.
Convert yourself into a disciple who knows how to listen and discern. On many occasions sounds manifest silence. Indeed, the important thing is not what arrives but how we receive it.
NIGHT PRAYER:
Lord, may your gentle whisper be the word we follow, your hand the hand we hold and your footsteps be the marks in which we place our feet. As we seek you tonight; in the silence of the stars in the calming of our minds in the peace of this place Speak to us Lord.
Lord, may your gentle whisper be the word we follow, your hand the hand we hold and your footsteps be the marks in which we place our feet. As we seek you tonight; in the silence of the stars in the calming of our minds in the peace of this place Speak to us Lord.
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
NIGHT PRAYER:
Lord, may your gentle whisper be the word we follow, your hand the hand we hold and your footsteps be the marks in which we place our feet. As we seek you tonight; in the silence of the stars in the calming of our minds in the peace of this place Speak to us Lord.
Lord, may your gentle whisper be the word we follow, your hand the hand we hold and your footsteps be the marks in which we place our feet. As we seek you tonight; in the silence of the stars in the calming of our minds in the peace of this place Speak to us Lord.
LIFE IS AN ECHO: God yodels to us... like calling in sheep: What you send out - comes back. What you sow - you reap. What you give - you get. What you see in others - exists in you. Do not judge - so you will not be judged. Radiate and give Love and Love comes back to you.
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
LIFE IS AN ECHO: God yodels to us... like calling in sheep: What you send out - comes back. What you sow - you reap. What you give - you get. What you see in others - exists in you. Do not judge - so you will not be judged. Radiate and give Love and Love comes back to you.
THE DIDACHE an early Christian treatise. Full title, "The Teaching of the Lord through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations" was a church manual written in Koine Greek. The Cloud says Maranatha is the perfect prayer for meditation, leave the meaning & listen to the sound...
Ah!
Ah!
November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
THE DIDACHE an early Christian treatise. Full title, "The Teaching of the Lord through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations" was a church manual written in Koine Greek. The Cloud says Maranatha is the perfect prayer for meditation, leave the meaning & listen to the sound...
Ah!
Ah!
NIGHT PRAYER:
We weave a silence upon our lips, into our minds and deep within our hearts. Calm us O Lord as you stilled the storm, Still us O Lord and keep us from harm. Let all tumult within us cease. Enfold us Lord in your love and your peace.
Some call it a loom
We weave a silence upon our lips, into our minds and deep within our hearts. Calm us O Lord as you stilled the storm, Still us O Lord and keep us from harm. Let all tumult within us cease. Enfold us Lord in your love and your peace.
Some call it a loom
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
NIGHT PRAYER:
We weave a silence upon our lips, into our minds and deep within our hearts. Calm us O Lord as you stilled the storm, Still us O Lord and keep us from harm. Let all tumult within us cease. Enfold us Lord in your love and your peace.
Some call it a loom
We weave a silence upon our lips, into our minds and deep within our hearts. Calm us O Lord as you stilled the storm, Still us O Lord and keep us from harm. Let all tumult within us cease. Enfold us Lord in your love and your peace.
Some call it a loom
ILLUSION & REALITY
It's easy to read about wakefulness, to have elaborate ideas about enlightenment, and yet be fast asleep!
The call to modern man and to all of us is to become spiritual, to ditch the Pharisee that lurks within us, and to become truly human, real and humble.
It's easy to read about wakefulness, to have elaborate ideas about enlightenment, and yet be fast asleep!
The call to modern man and to all of us is to become spiritual, to ditch the Pharisee that lurks within us, and to become truly human, real and humble.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
ILLUSION & REALITY
It's easy to read about wakefulness, to have elaborate ideas about enlightenment, and yet be fast asleep!
The call to modern man and to all of us is to become spiritual, to ditch the Pharisee that lurks within us, and to become truly human, real and humble.
It's easy to read about wakefulness, to have elaborate ideas about enlightenment, and yet be fast asleep!
The call to modern man and to all of us is to become spiritual, to ditch the Pharisee that lurks within us, and to become truly human, real and humble.
HERMIT RULE 13:
Value solitude - the hermitage serves the world in its prayerful separation. Learn to watch and pray until your life itself becomes a prayer to God.
I know the feeling!
Value solitude - the hermitage serves the world in its prayerful separation. Learn to watch and pray until your life itself becomes a prayer to God.
I know the feeling!
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
HERMIT RULE 13:
Value solitude - the hermitage serves the world in its prayerful separation. Learn to watch and pray until your life itself becomes a prayer to God.
I know the feeling!
Value solitude - the hermitage serves the world in its prayerful separation. Learn to watch and pray until your life itself becomes a prayer to God.
I know the feeling!
Hi Peter, thanks for clarifying your take on my post... I was trying to link the Universal (Cosmic) Christ with the Perichoreses, the mystical work (dance) of the Trinity. Maybe an image from the James Webb Space Telescope (below) may have been a better choice than the artwork I chose.
Pax, Bod.
Pax, Bod.
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Hi Peter, thanks for clarifying your take on my post... I was trying to link the Universal (Cosmic) Christ with the Perichoreses, the mystical work (dance) of the Trinity. Maybe an image from the James Webb Space Telescope (below) may have been a better choice than the artwork I chose.
Pax, Bod.
Pax, Bod.
ONE PRAYER
The central message of the NT is that there is only one prayer, that of Christ and it continues in our hearts day and night. It is the stream of love that flows constantly between Jesus, his Father and the Holy Spirit and it is for us to join in this Cosmic Dance.
The central message of the NT is that there is only one prayer, that of Christ and it continues in our hearts day and night. It is the stream of love that flows constantly between Jesus, his Father and the Holy Spirit and it is for us to join in this Cosmic Dance.
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
ONE PRAYER
The central message of the NT is that there is only one prayer, that of Christ and it continues in our hearts day and night. It is the stream of love that flows constantly between Jesus, his Father and the Holy Spirit and it is for us to join in this Cosmic Dance.
The central message of the NT is that there is only one prayer, that of Christ and it continues in our hearts day and night. It is the stream of love that flows constantly between Jesus, his Father and the Holy Spirit and it is for us to join in this Cosmic Dance.
As society becomes increasingly less religious its need for the authentically spiritual intensifies.
Religion is the sacred expression of the spiritual but if the spiritual experience is lacking then the religious form becomes hollow, superficial and self important
1 Tim 6:6
Religion is the sacred expression of the spiritual but if the spiritual experience is lacking then the religious form becomes hollow, superficial and self important
1 Tim 6:6
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
As society becomes increasingly less religious its need for the authentically spiritual intensifies.
Religion is the sacred expression of the spiritual but if the spiritual experience is lacking then the religious form becomes hollow, superficial and self important
1 Tim 6:6
Religion is the sacred expression of the spiritual but if the spiritual experience is lacking then the religious form becomes hollow, superficial and self important
1 Tim 6:6
HERMIT RULE 12:
Learn how to prolong the privileged moments when time is traversed vertically; it is so at The Lord’s Table, yet there are still distances in time and space. Unite yourself to the life unseen which requires your prayer and your vigil.
Learn how to prolong the privileged moments when time is traversed vertically; it is so at The Lord’s Table, yet there are still distances in time and space. Unite yourself to the life unseen which requires your prayer and your vigil.
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
HERMIT RULE 12:
Learn how to prolong the privileged moments when time is traversed vertically; it is so at The Lord’s Table, yet there are still distances in time and space. Unite yourself to the life unseen which requires your prayer and your vigil.
Learn how to prolong the privileged moments when time is traversed vertically; it is so at The Lord’s Table, yet there are still distances in time and space. Unite yourself to the life unseen which requires your prayer and your vigil.
BEFRIEND DEATH:
If we are to become wise we must learn that we have no abiding city (Heb: 13-14)
To have life in focus we must have death within our field of vision. Within this vision we see life as a preparation for death and death as preparation for life.
If we are to become wise we must learn that we have no abiding city (Heb: 13-14)
To have life in focus we must have death within our field of vision. Within this vision we see life as a preparation for death and death as preparation for life.
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
BEFRIEND DEATH:
If we are to become wise we must learn that we have no abiding city (Heb: 13-14)
To have life in focus we must have death within our field of vision. Within this vision we see life as a preparation for death and death as preparation for life.
If we are to become wise we must learn that we have no abiding city (Heb: 13-14)
To have life in focus we must have death within our field of vision. Within this vision we see life as a preparation for death and death as preparation for life.
BEAVERS and TREES
Time and the flowing streams of life
Make changes on the earth around
Villages emerge as towns
That were by old-world customs bound.
Trees spread or fall and rivers widen
Brooks run dry and forests grow
We always find some changes
In the views we used to know.
Time and the flowing streams of life
Make changes on the earth around
Villages emerge as towns
That were by old-world customs bound.
Trees spread or fall and rivers widen
Brooks run dry and forests grow
We always find some changes
In the views we used to know.
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
BEAVERS and TREES
Time and the flowing streams of life
Make changes on the earth around
Villages emerge as towns
That were by old-world customs bound.
Trees spread or fall and rivers widen
Brooks run dry and forests grow
We always find some changes
In the views we used to know.
Time and the flowing streams of life
Make changes on the earth around
Villages emerge as towns
That were by old-world customs bound.
Trees spread or fall and rivers widen
Brooks run dry and forests grow
We always find some changes
In the views we used to know.
THE QUIETER YOU BECOME,
THE MORE YOU CAN HEAR:
Here we will sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears:
Soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
THE MORE YOU CAN HEAR:
Here we will sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears:
Soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
THE QUIETER YOU BECOME,
THE MORE YOU CAN HEAR:
Here we will sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears:
Soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
THE MORE YOU CAN HEAR:
Here we will sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears:
Soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
AUTUMN: The most prominent spiritual lesson of autumn is the necessity of releasing what no longer serves us as trees shed their leaves to prepare for winter. This can mean releasing old habits, emotional burdens, or past hurts to create space for future growth and healing.
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
AUTUMN: The most prominent spiritual lesson of autumn is the necessity of releasing what no longer serves us as trees shed their leaves to prepare for winter. This can mean releasing old habits, emotional burdens, or past hurts to create space for future growth and healing.
HERMIT RULE 11:
Live one day at a time. Take advantage of the moments and the dawns. Discover in each moment, in landscapes, in music and in all manifestations of beauty, the depth of your true interior solitude.
Live one day at a time. Take advantage of the moments and the dawns. Discover in each moment, in landscapes, in music and in all manifestations of beauty, the depth of your true interior solitude.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
HERMIT RULE 11:
Live one day at a time. Take advantage of the moments and the dawns. Discover in each moment, in landscapes, in music and in all manifestations of beauty, the depth of your true interior solitude.
Live one day at a time. Take advantage of the moments and the dawns. Discover in each moment, in landscapes, in music and in all manifestations of beauty, the depth of your true interior solitude.
HERMIT RULE 10:
Don’t settle down in or get tied to a rigid timetable. Stay within a harmonious order that you can easily change. Try to integrate surprise and the unexpected. Live in the silence of your own interior and cultivate peace.
The Power of Silence:
Don’t settle down in or get tied to a rigid timetable. Stay within a harmonious order that you can easily change. Try to integrate surprise and the unexpected. Live in the silence of your own interior and cultivate peace.
The Power of Silence:
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
HERMIT RULE 10:
Don’t settle down in or get tied to a rigid timetable. Stay within a harmonious order that you can easily change. Try to integrate surprise and the unexpected. Live in the silence of your own interior and cultivate peace.
The Power of Silence:
Don’t settle down in or get tied to a rigid timetable. Stay within a harmonious order that you can easily change. Try to integrate surprise and the unexpected. Live in the silence of your own interior and cultivate peace.
The Power of Silence:
SPINOZA & BIBLE
This quote went semi-viral, though, as usual, without a source cited, so likely not actually anything Spinoza said, but in essence, is true to Spinozism.
"I am that I am" is found in Exodus 3:14, where God speaks to Moses & identifies Himself using this phrase.
This quote went semi-viral, though, as usual, without a source cited, so likely not actually anything Spinoza said, but in essence, is true to Spinozism.
"I am that I am" is found in Exodus 3:14, where God speaks to Moses & identifies Himself using this phrase.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
SPINOZA & BIBLE
This quote went semi-viral, though, as usual, without a source cited, so likely not actually anything Spinoza said, but in essence, is true to Spinozism.
"I am that I am" is found in Exodus 3:14, where God speaks to Moses & identifies Himself using this phrase.
This quote went semi-viral, though, as usual, without a source cited, so likely not actually anything Spinoza said, but in essence, is true to Spinozism.
"I am that I am" is found in Exodus 3:14, where God speaks to Moses & identifies Himself using this phrase.
HERMIT RULE 9:
Know that although you feel yourself in the mystery of exile, the Kingdom of Heaven is already within you and all is One sacred universe beloved of God.
These are the first words in the Bible: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1)
Know that although you feel yourself in the mystery of exile, the Kingdom of Heaven is already within you and all is One sacred universe beloved of God.
These are the first words in the Bible: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1)
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
HERMIT RULE 9:
Know that although you feel yourself in the mystery of exile, the Kingdom of Heaven is already within you and all is One sacred universe beloved of God.
These are the first words in the Bible: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1)
Know that although you feel yourself in the mystery of exile, the Kingdom of Heaven is already within you and all is One sacred universe beloved of God.
These are the first words in the Bible: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1)
ADVENTURE IN GOD
The hermitage is a centre of prayer only to the degree that it is a community of love. It testifies to the liberty of God to act as he will, to transcend the laws and conventions by which men limit the ordinary workings of their lives. God is bigger than you think!
The hermitage is a centre of prayer only to the degree that it is a community of love. It testifies to the liberty of God to act as he will, to transcend the laws and conventions by which men limit the ordinary workings of their lives. God is bigger than you think!
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
ADVENTURE IN GOD
The hermitage is a centre of prayer only to the degree that it is a community of love. It testifies to the liberty of God to act as he will, to transcend the laws and conventions by which men limit the ordinary workings of their lives. God is bigger than you think!
The hermitage is a centre of prayer only to the degree that it is a community of love. It testifies to the liberty of God to act as he will, to transcend the laws and conventions by which men limit the ordinary workings of their lives. God is bigger than you think!
MY FATHER IS THE GARDENER:
True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness, and utter joy. True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.
True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness, and utter joy. True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
MY FATHER IS THE GARDENER:
True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness, and utter joy. True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.
True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness, and utter joy. True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.
PONDER:
Nature is painting for us, day after day,
pictures of infinite beauty
if only we have eyes to see them.
(John Ruskin 1819-1900)
Nature is painting for us, day after day,
pictures of infinite beauty
if only we have eyes to see them.
(John Ruskin 1819-1900)
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
PONDER:
Nature is painting for us, day after day,
pictures of infinite beauty
if only we have eyes to see them.
(John Ruskin 1819-1900)
Nature is painting for us, day after day,
pictures of infinite beauty
if only we have eyes to see them.
(John Ruskin 1819-1900)
STATIONS of the CROSS 8:
Happy are they who mourn your affliction; they will rejoice on seeing all your glory. ( Tobit 13:18 )
Jesus turn towards me and let your glance unseal me a fountain of true sorrow for my sins;
8 Jesus meets the woman of Jerusalem:
Happy are they who mourn your affliction; they will rejoice on seeing all your glory. ( Tobit 13:18 )
Jesus turn towards me and let your glance unseal me a fountain of true sorrow for my sins;
8 Jesus meets the woman of Jerusalem:
November 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
STATIONS of the CROSS 8:
Happy are they who mourn your affliction; they will rejoice on seeing all your glory. ( Tobit 13:18 )
Jesus turn towards me and let your glance unseal me a fountain of true sorrow for my sins;
8 Jesus meets the woman of Jerusalem:
Happy are they who mourn your affliction; they will rejoice on seeing all your glory. ( Tobit 13:18 )
Jesus turn towards me and let your glance unseal me a fountain of true sorrow for my sins;
8 Jesus meets the woman of Jerusalem: