God keeps us waiting because…
“Why does God, who is love, keep us waiting? Because He is love, and seeks love. Love that does not know how to wait is not love. To love is to give ourselves. No only for a fraction of a lifetime,...
View ArticlePray like a child
“Pray simply like a child, and God will hear your prayer” the Elder Siluan [...]
View ArticlePope: The Lord is calling me to “climb the mountain”
This is Pope Benedict’s final Angelus address as the Supreme Pontiff of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. Notice the imagery he uses: the climbing the mountain and “once you’ve met Christ,...
View ArticleChristian meditation is the gift of the whole person to God
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with his mind and lips, but in a certain sense with his whole being. Prayer is then not just a formula of words, or a series of desires springing up...
View ArticleSaint Bonaventure on mystical prayer
One of the famous works of Saint Bonaventure’s is his Journey of the Mind to God. You see it in many places for those wanting a glimpse into this significant medieval thinker. It was in the Roman...
View ArticleContemplation AND ordinary experience praise God
I would say that it is very important in the contemplative life not to overemphasize the contemplation. If we constantly overemphasize those things to which access is inevitably quite rare, we overlook...
View ArticlePrayer connects all of us to God’s mercy
All prayer is communion, not only between Christ and me but also between everybody in the Church and myself. All prayer takes us into the communion of saints. Perhaps it would be helpful to think that...
View ArticleReported Benedict XVI mystical experience untrue
Cindy Wooden of Catholic News Service is reporting that the recent press on the mystical experience of the emeritus pope is untrue. She writes, Archbishop Georg Ganswein, retired Pope Benedict XVI’s...
View ArticlePope’s prayer to Mary, the Immaculate Conception
We know that Pope Francis has a devotion to the Mother of God. No doubt strongly influenced by his Argentinian/Italian and Jesuit background. In some ways he’s no different than most faithful Catholics...
View ArticleThe Big Three of Lent
I saw this post the other day, “The Big Three of Lent.” Thought I would share: Fasting is not just a spiritual diet. By denying our bodies, our physical hunger reminds us of the hunger of our souls for...
View ArticleVirgin Mary’s Role in the Defeat of Satan
There is a very interesting conference being planned for next week that needs our attention even though the meeting is for clergy and related persons to the field of the spiritual life and exorcism...
View ArticlePrayer and Fasting
Prayer and fasting, worship and adoration, Scripture and sacraments and sacramentals all provide the weapons of our spiritual warfare. With them we go on the offensive against the Evil One. But the...
View ArticleChristian prayer centers us differently
I am frequently confused by Christians. They complain they don’t know the tradition, that they don’t know if God exists, they equate faith, belief, church, sacrament as all the the same and don’t seem...
View ArticleSt Bruno
Today we liturgically recall great monastic founder and reformer, St Bruno. What we admire and are grateful for in the mission of Bruno is his accent on silence and contemplation in the daily search...
View ArticleBeing watchful
“Being watchful is intimately connected with a sustained and disciplined practice of meditation. Taking the time each day to try to discern the movement of the Spirit prepares us to recognize, to...
View ArticleA good conscience needed for authentic prayer
Conscience demands uncompromising honesty, and that is why it is an integral component of authentic prayer. When we consciously enter the presence of God, it is imperative that we do so as we are, and...
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