Spirituality

Getting Back Up

God does not bless human sin, but he is more than willing to pick up children who try and fail.

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Thy Exceeding Great Mercy

Redemption means more than buying each of us back from a bad life; it means restoration. And what needs to be restored most in every human soul without exception is trust in God.

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The Problem with Power

Valuing power and strength is clearly not wrong. But it is spiritually deadly to seek them apart from God.

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Breaking the Habit

We want God to deliver us from sin now. Right now! But the wisdom of the psalmist submits all desire for deliverance to God’s time.

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Psalms of True Sorrow

Scripture tells us to have sorrow for sin, but warns about going to excess.

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The Dove Does Not Need to Come Back

Then he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth. But the dove could find no place to alight and perch, and it returned to him in the ark, for there was water all over the earth. Putting out his hand, he caught the dove and drew it back to him inside the ark.

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A Wider Place for Love

Sooner or later, whether we are inside the monastery or out in the world, God is going to invite us to make that next step forward in giving our lives to Him.

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Finding the Cross

Our Lord puts to each of us individually about the spirit of penance that He wants us to embrace. That is, your cross – the very one that He has custom made for each of us to be our own personal royal road to heaven.

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You Are The Salt Of The Earth

Like soldiers preparing for battle, we need to approach this coming Lenten season with a proper knowledge of our strengths and our weaknesses and review our plan of attack.

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The Wisdom of God

Today is also the day of our conversion. We can still decide today to put our hands to the plow. Plowing and sowing demand self-discipline, focus, timeliness and staying in your lane if you expect any reward.

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Christ's One Message

Do you not yet understand or comprehend? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?

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We believe, and we adore, and we love.

What we heard in the first line of today’s first reading, St. Thomas makes clear, suffices to be good theological definition of the virtue of faith. What do we believe but the First Truth, God Himself, but precisely as something as yet unseen?

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A Necessary Part of the Christian Life

How much time do I actually give to my friends? How much do I pray for my friends? How much do I really try to see the face of Christ in the face of my friend?

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