Sayings of Light and Love 29 Sayings of Light and Love 29: A soul enkindled with love is a gentle, meek, humble, and patient soul.
Sayings of Light and Love 20 Sayings of Light and Love 20: God is more pleased by one work, however small, done secretly, without desire
At the end of his treatise on contemplation (also known as his treatise On Consideration), Saint Bernard of Clairvaux observes the dimensions of Christian mental
Temptation to Power and the Prayer of Humble Obedience The merely material, psychological and political make lifeless absolutes when it comes to the history of
…A reader asks: Dear Father John, why does God chastise us for pride and vanity but demands our absolute adoration? I know that men wrote
Dear Father John, why does God chastise us for pride and vanity but demands our absolute adoration? I know that men wrote the Bible. These
In our last post, we introduced Saint John of Avila’s teaching in his lifetime project Audi, Filia. To help us understand how important it is
Dear Father John, I am helping a woman in her spiritual growth (mainly through helping her come up with a program of life), and something
Is it possible to pray out of misery without falling into self-pity? The question, posed by one of our readers, indicates a grave evil confronted
“You are I and I am you.” (Words spoken to Saint Angela di Foligno as recorded in Memorial, Chapter IX taken from Angela of Foligno:
