Fr. John Bartunek answers a reader’s question about the good and the bad of being curious. He explains the difference between the virtue of studiositas and the vice of curiositas.
What is group spiritual direction? And, is it a good way to receive direction? Find out when Fr. John Bartunek answers a reader’s question.
Fr. John Bartunek answers a reader’s question about why it is they suffer Lenten melancholy which only lifts when Easter arrives.
What can we do to color our lives with spiritual joy this Easter season? Fr. John Bartunek reflects on this and offers three suggestions.
Fr. John Bartunek introduces his “Lenten Retreat Guide on the Last Supper: Teacher and Lord”, wherein he explains the first and second meditations of the guide, and a conference to go with it.
Why go to confession when you have no sins to confess? Find out when Fr. John Bartunek explains the benefits of this sacrament of mercy.
A reader, praying the Litany of Humility for Lent, asks how they can be freed from the desire to be loved. Fr. John Bartunek responds.
Fr. John Bartunek explains how the interior motive is different between penance and mortification … and how each can be done during Lent!
Dan Burke and Melissa Elson reflect on the meditations of Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen regarding humility through the willful acceptance of humiliations.
Fr. John Bartunek answers a reader’s question about what mortification is and how it helps us to practice it.