I tried my baking skills the other day. I had an orange-cranberry muffin mix, which called for an added cup of water.
Flush with the success of earlier efforts, I added a protein booster whey powder, a couple eggs, and two tablespoons of oil.
After 25 minutes in the oven, the knife came out clean.
We cut the cake the next day to store it. It consisted of an outside ring, inside ring and center.
The outside was perfect, a dream of a cake.
The inside was still semi-liquid, doughy.
The center was empty.
T. S. Eliot:
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Wow! What an image of spiritual life!
It is critical for our spiritual lives to be real, nourishing, whole.
Not cream puffs without cream.
And, when you’re starving, a good hearty piece of bread is better than a pastry.
I’m reading Dom Helder Camara in the Orbis Books series Modern Spiritual Masters. I was intrigued that I never heard of him before, yet the blurb identified him as a major player in Vatican II and an archbishop (?) who implemented changes to move the Brazilian and Latin American church toward ideals of Poverty and Service.
He embodied the bishop Victor Hugo described in the opening pages of Les Miserables. Fluent in French, he must have known that book well. The Brazilian dictatorship of the 1960s silenced him in the country, but could not outside.
Conservative, fervent anti-Communist pope John Paul II dismantled most of his accomplishments. His writings are largely in Portuguese and housed in Recife, I believe. Orbis is doing world Christianity a great service in bringing the riches of his thought to light.
I confess I got a flyer offering them at half off. I purchased:
- Dom Helder Camara
- Pedro Arrupe
- Thomas Merton
- Evelyn Underhill
- Simone Weil
- Writings on Contemplation and Compassion, ed. Robert Ellsburg.
Easily a year’s worth of reading and reflection. I was introduced to the series by the volume on Dorothee Sölle, the German theologian. That led me to read her magnum opus The Silent Cry, which I’ve written about.
Reading is a way out of despair for me. It helps me in these increasingly dark days. Advent is around the corner, my heart cries out for light, light, light!
Photo by Mary Fran
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