The Mystical Order of the White Rose

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
- Thomas Merton

Video Meditation: Love signal; music & frequency 528

ST. HILARY’S FEAST DAY (Christian)

The Ordination of St. Hilary from a 14th Century Manuscript (from Wikipedia)
Video of late 14th Century French Song – Solage
Hilary of Poitiers (c. 300 – c. 368]) was Bishop of Poitiers and is a Doctor of the Church. He was sometimes [...]

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Today, we [...]

Every action of our lives touches some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Song: Sure As the Wind by Libana (video)
Meditation Video: Relaxing Sounds of Wind in the Meadow
Feast Day of Brother Lawrence (Roman Catholic observance)
God does not ask much of us. But remembering Him, praising Him, asking for [...]

“I feel that I have found a sanctuary of sorts with the Mystical Order of the White Rose community. While it honors and shares wisdom teachings from many religious and spiritual traditions, it’s perfectly okay that I don’t have one particular religious or spiritual box that I fit neatly into. It’s rare and refreshing [...]

The Mystical Order of the White Rose offers members:
— an emerging, online, ecumenical, multi-faith community;
— an eclectic, uplifting collection of daily and seasonal multi-faith devotional resources;
— access to people, writings, services, and products that offer spiritual and religious support, stimulation, and nourishment to members
— a free monthly newsletter that contains daily devotional readings, profiles of [...]

Great works do not always lie in our way, but every moment
we may do little ones excellently, that is, with great love.

- Francis De Sales 1567-1622
Song: The Mystic’s Dream by Loreena McKennitt (video)
The Mystic’s Dream is from her album: “The Mask and Mirror.”

Lyrics:
A clouded dream on an earthly night
Hangs upon the crescent moon
A [...]

“Most of us have to taste our need in a fierce sort of way before our hungers jar us into turning our lives over to God…. In the Divine Arms we become less demanding and more like the One who holds us. Then we experience new hungers. We hunger and [...]

  “We make for ourselves, in truth, our own spiritual world, our own monsters, chimeras, angels, –we make objective what ferments in us.  All is marvelous for the poet; all is divine for the saint; all is great for the hero; all is wretched, miserable, ugly, bad for the base and sordid soul.  The bad [...]

 On the benefits of meditation:  “It is as though within the meditation, regardless of how scattered it seems, there is a pure and distilled waterfall of light which irrigates and illumines, cell by cell, the body, mind and spirit.  It is like being rinsed and polished to relax into that presence which is holy.”
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