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• Oldie but Goodie, lest you forget

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE April 27, 2014
  Desiderata Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid l...
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• Ministry 101: Red Flag Spotting

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE April 18, 2014
  The Church, Congregation and Clergy, like everybody else, are targets all too often selected by people that can really do some harm. Here is a basic checklist of traits that, if one has very many checks on at all can reflect a higher risk personality. Bear in mind that people are far from perfec...
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• Adjusting to Zero

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE April 16, 2014
  The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. "Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer...
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• "We Sing the Body Electric.."

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE March 15, 2014
  I remember an author who once said "the desert is the locus dei" and I remember laughing not only about the boast, but that the guy looked like a carving of some wind blasted, grinning thing you would buy in one of our tourist shops to stick in the yard. Him, poor thing, I bet would scare off gopher...

• Southwest Sanctuary

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE August 7, 2013
  Well the most recent news is that we are moving the main site to greener pastures a bit North of Las Cruces, NM and we are going to rent the La Mesa house to friends wanting to be ver here for $525/month.  There is a lot to do and we are gathering everything we can and talking about the next f...

• You Could Be Swingin' On A Star!

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE June 28, 2013
  Would you like to swing on a star Carry moonbeams home in a jar And be better off than you are Or would you rather be a mule? A mule is an animal with long funny ears Kicks up at anything he hears His back is brawny and his brain is weak, He's just plain stupid with a stubborn streak - And b...
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• Sacerdosis

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE June 18, 2013
  "If no G-d, then probably best not to live. (1, theology)Oh! Got G-d? Will live long enough then to need food. (2, agriculture)Got G-d & Food? Wow! You're going to be around long enough to be miserable and sick and will need healing. (3, medicine)Ok! Got those? Those are G-d's gifts to us and now go...

• The Return of Life

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE June 2, 2013
  I have been around longer than I like to think about. I only say that so you will know that when I say it was 20 years that so few young people were entering seminaries and sacred life, it closed many powerful academies down and was like a dread of hopeless on those of us who knew our day would pass...
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• Hallelujah - Leonard Choen

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE June 2, 2013
  Hallelujah originally by Leonard Cohen "Hallelujah" I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallel...
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• The "New" Needs Standard

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE April 21, 2013
    "Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs" has served as the standard theory model in both secular and sacred colleges. Even where another theory officially predominates, you will find Maslow and see him more in practice than any other founder of the psychological discipline. While most everybody i...
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• Fallacies in Argument on message boards

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE April 17, 2013
  Because ULC does not require honesty, maturity or professional qualification from members and posters, here is a list of “Fallacies in argument” for serious people and as a protection from the trolls who haunt this place using the most juvenile and ridiculous of tactics to “bully&r...
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• Invictus

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE April 16, 2013
  Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and t...

• Moasteries Of The Rose Chapel

  by +Bro Karl Buchanan, OE December 26, 2012
  Arkansas - The preserve at Arkansas is CLOSED teporarily.   New Mexico - We are all scheduled to meet finally in August and begin work on the new prayer chapel. After 6 months of struggle and strife we are nearly at sanctuary once again.   The New Mexico monastery has some planting and...