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The Four Marks of the Church NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE P A I D Monastery of the Ascension BOISE, IDAHO PERMIT No. 849 THE DESERT CHRONICLE The Benedictine Monks of Idaho, Inc. Monastery of the Ascension 541 East 100 South Jerome, ID 83338-5655 POPE FRANCIS: ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED THE DESERT CHRONICLE XXIV, No. 1 APRIL 2016 The Four Marks of the Church By Fr. Hugh Feiss, OSB (Photos from along the Camino to Compostela) “We believe in one, holy, catholic, Upcoming Retreats Road Scholar Programs/2016 and apostolic Church.” at the Monastery (Creed of the Council of Constantinople, 381 AD) May 23-29: Geology of the Snake River Plain (full) S WE APPROACH THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING RoadBREAKTHROUGH Scholar ENNEAGRAM Programs, WORKSHOP 2014 May 30-June 5: Benedictine Life, Literature and Art, OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION (1517), WE ARE REMINDED April 29-30, 2016, Sr. Barbara Glodowski, Facilitator. 550-1500 AD OF THE VENERABLE ADAGE, “ECCLESIA SEMPER REFORMANDA,” June 30–July 6: A Ancient Rome: Life, History, Literature and the Church always needs to be reforming itself. In recent years, scholars have been Using the ancient wisdom preserved by the Monks of the Spread of Christianity June 13-19: Quilting (Personal Story Quilts) thinking about the notion of reform. It does not necessarily mean that the Church, JulyMount 7–July Athos, 13: Religion come discover and the your Settling personality of the Westtraits and or monastery, or other institution has become deformed, though it can mean that. July 11-17: English History, 1066-1450 and Detective Julyhow 21–July to walk 27: on Ireland: the path History, of transformation Myth, Saints through and Culture Reform can be required simply because the Church and other institutions are Fiction Set in the Period (Full) INSIDE AugustChrist’s 4–10: power. Poetry For inmore Paradise: information Reading contact Dante’s Anita “The Divine constituted by people living in time, Comedy” at a Benedictine Monastery so they need to change to meet new Koehn, [email protected], 208-324-8094. July 18-24: Quilting (Two Block Quilt with Variations) The Four Marks of the Church September 1-7: Hiking Amid Nature and History of the Snake situations and new challenges. page 1 River Plain August 1-7: Religion and the Settling of the West Thus, in 381 AD, at the Council of Constantinople, the creed From The Prior’s Pulpit Contact Fr. Hugh Feiss, OSB, [email protected] 208- September 5-11: Hiking the Snake River Plain promulgated at the Council of Nicaea page 2 761-9389 in 325 AD was slightly revised to meet For information contact Road Scholar or Fr. Hugh, Poems the challenges raised by a half-century page 6 208-761-9389 of struggle against the teachings of Arius, who did not think that God Upcoming Events The Desert Chronicle is available in digital form on the monastery website: www.idahomonks.org. If you page 8 Pamplona: St. Nicholas See “FOUR MARKS”, cont on page 3 would like to receive the Desert Chronicle in digital form and cancel your paper subscription, please email Fr. Hugh: [email protected] and send him your email address. Tom Hogan is a retired social worker who lives with his wife, POEMS Jane Rickenbaugh, in Milwaukie, OR. They visit the monastery each summer and help with the Road Scholar programs. TREE HOUSE I saw a tree house today while COLD FRONT IN DOWNTOWN EUGENE walking with my granddaughter We saw people sleeping outside this evening in tents Emma along Meadowlark Lane or under tarps beneath the freeway overpasses, strewn with cheery blossoms crying out like gossamer gumdrops the temperature in downtown Eugene holding on the slippery spring pavement. at a frigid 9 degrees, chilling to the bone to be outside It was a complete building finished the car for five min., much less be living outside. with a corrugated roof and boards “How can this be,” I thought, “in the richest country covering windows looking like cannon ports on a Ship o’ the Line on earth?” Ice hung on the tent poles and you said to keep out any unwanted intruder. “It’s a case of the haves and the haves nots and Two ladders rose to the house we’re some of the haves.” I thought about that and said, and even though they were side by “You can see it most on cruises, the passengers side, one looked every bit an entrance, the other like a last ditch escape hatch are us and the servers are from third world countries.” from prying parents or space invaders. I can pass on going on any more cruises, I thought. I’d walked this street a hundred times before but, as things would be with But does that act help with those sleeping outside in tents From the Prior’s Pulpit in downtown Eugene? We thought about that some more, tree houses and purloined letters HOCUS POCUS in plain view, never saw this dwelling then got out of the car and gave the man on the corner till this instant. When I was walking, By Fr. Kenneth Hein, OSB three dollars. We drove along for a bit, thought some more, slowed down, with my granddaughter, paying attention to things like tree houses. said some prayers, then went home. What else was there It seemed to shout “see me” today. S MANY READING THIS COLUMN KNOW, existentialism a-la-mode de Jean Paul Sartre’s Being and to do that evening in the cold front in downtown Eugene? THE “MAGIC WORDS”, HOCUS POCUS, WERE Nothingness. AORIGINALLY A MOCKING PLAY ON THE LATIN We take daily things for granted and use them without WORDS, HOC EST ENIM CORPUS MEUM (“FOR THIS being much aware of them. A common example is that of a YELLOW BIRD IS HAPPY is my body”), used in Masses said in Latin. Thankfully the pencil or a ball-point pen. We use such items without being very The yellow bird looked happy today He even thought he was getting a little sunburn, ecumenical spirit of our times has consigned this use of hocus aware of them--until they break or become defective. Then our perched on the wooden deck railing which would help his feelings of inferiority. pocus to the dust bins of history. However, a recent event here at consciousness is “raised” by “brokenness”, i.e., by “nothingness”. pleased with the bird seed evenly laid out. Today he was happy to be alive and where he was, the monastery has revived memories of the not-so-good old days of Consciousness is thus a sort of “crack” in the solid rock of less-than-kind interchange between Catholics and Protestants. existence. Okay. That’s enough about nothing. Now let’s get on Usually he was too shy to come first to eat, unlike the red bird who always wanted to be someone else On the morning of January 5, I entered our chapel as usual with something--in this case, the tabernacle. waiting till after the loud-mouthed the green bird who was always looking for harmony for Morning Prayer. As I prepared to genuflect toward the Our local parish priest offered us the use of a tabernacle, red birds ate their fill. The green birds or the black birds who were always flying away. tabernacle, I noticed that the tabernacle was not in its expected which turned out to be too large for our rather small chapel. place. I looked around, wondering where the tabernacle might Still another parish, St. Mary’s in Boise, has offered us a usually didn’t get up this early, they were He watched “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon” last night, have been relocated. Father Boniface then advised me that the tabernacle that is similar to the one we had. It is now located no problem and the black birds were nesting then had a nightmare about turning red for a day, tabernacle and the Blessed Sacrament within it had somehow in a proper place and with added security in our chapel. It by the lake. Today he’d read a little before waking up before he knew the ending. disappeared during the night. is doubtful that we will ever know for sure what has become As coincidence would have it, it was my turn to be the main of our tabernacle. The thief or thieves have probably already rising, his latest novel “Bird Watchers: Their Today he liked being yellow, being alive, healthy, celebrant at Mass that morning, and the Gospel for the day discovered that it is not made of gold and that it has no salvage Habits and Neuroses.” Why anyone would basking in the translucent sunlight of summer, recounted Jesus’ feeding of the five thousand who had followed value. However, let us all pray that the one or ones who has/ travel miles to sit, he thought, in a stinking bog for today, not wanting to be different any more. him to “a deserted place.” My homily was quickly transformed have perpetrated this sacrilegious action will experience a change into a reflection on the common experience of absence which can of heart. We harbor no resentment, but only pray that this to watch what birds did and write their names make one more keenly aware of something than would otherwise experience of absence will bring us all closer to the Lord and down in a sodden note book was beyond him. be the case. This experience “plays big” in the philosophy of make our hearts grow fonder for the gift of the Eucharist.• But today he let all that go.
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