The last straw which led to Saint Augustine’s conversion to Christianity was the voice of a child, playing a game in which he chanted “take and read, take and read.” The voice led Augustine to pick up the Bible and read a passage from Romans which made him look upon himself and the world in [...]
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America blogger Valerie Schultz is a volunteer in a prison, where she often prays the “Serenity Prayer” with inmates in 12-step groups: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. The key for her is the [...]
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Here’s some excellent practical wisdom from Blessed Peter Favre, SJ: Seek grace for the smallest things, and you will also find grace to accomplish, to believe in, and to hope for the greatest things. Attend to the smallest things, examine them, think about putting them into effect, and the Lord will grant you greater. Many [...]
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Becoming aware that we have been divinized by Jesus Christ, invited into the Trinity family, is felt realization of the numinous presence of God not only all around us but also within us. God is there all the time, waiting, Atman. But, like God’s forgiveness, God’s will to share the divine aliveness with us can’t [...]
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“When I was a novice, our novice master would say to us, ‘the red letter day in your spiritual life will come, not when you believe that you love God, but when you realize that he loves you!’ Many years of experience (experience of others and my own) have shown me how right he was. [...]
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Human life has meaning. We are not aimless beings, without a goal or purpose. We have been created by a God who loves us. We are called to build the Kingdom of God by knowing, loving and serving God and other people and thus entering life everlasting. While some people view “the world” as a [...]
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An apostolically oriented spirituality has everything to do with making choices, often complex choices, to act in certain ways in the world. The God we are seeking to cooperate with is a God who is involved in every nook and cranny of the world, in its hell-holes and its mini-paradises. Where do I choose to [...]
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The devotion to the Heart of Christ, so vigorous some years ago, so much on the decline today, would flourish once again if people would understand that it consists essentially in accepting Jesus Christ as love incarnate, as the manifestation of the unconditional love of God for us. Anyone who accepts this is bound to [...]
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In his forthcoming book Catholicism, Fr. Robert Barron makes the passing observation that Jesus was a layman: he was not trained in one of the formal rabbinical schools, or a priest or scribe of the tribe of Levi. Jesus was not, to use contemporary language, part of the religious “establishment.” Some would make him therefore [...]
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Today’s jolt arrived mid-afternoon when I hauled out a (paper!) calendar to jot something down. The square for September 1st remained unadorned by red heart and sparkling star stickers. Nowhere on my calendar had I written “anniversary!!!” in big purple letters with a trinity of exclamation points; neither on the Month At A Glance nor [...]
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