We have all experienced it or perhaps we have all engaged in it. There are some people who have the ability to expertly shoot holes in what other people are doing and how things are being run. Sometimes this can...

life comes in places, it has times, structures like a good poem it rhymes, has rhythm and is often pleasant I have learned to love life, the ways I can rely on its features the way it is filled with...

I think if we were honest with ourselves, we would recognize that we like to measure how things are going with our spiritual life. We tend to have certain aspects of the spiritual life towards which we gravitate, and we...

I will never forget my time in Mexico. One thing that stands out is watching people come to the parish church day in and day out to prayer to God. What was most striking about their prayer was the simplicity...

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To achieve harmony with God, with our neighbor, and with ourselves, we all need to educate our interior life through a consistent pattern of prayer, discipline, and self-denial. The regiment of asceticism should not be understood as a rejection of...

As many of you know, I have been doing research on Christian prayer/ meditation and mindfulness meditation for a few years now. I want to present a simple four step method that harnesses genuine insights from the research done by...

I am by no means an expert on relationships, but I want to float a theory I have about marriage. The idea is relatively simple. In spiritual theology, theologians tend to categorize one’s growth in intimacy with the Lord in...

Meditative Prayer in General The foundation of prayer is always an ongoing relationship with God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It can be described in terms of a friendship, a relationship of Lord to Master, or of Lover to Beloved....