
Benedictine Spirituality I: Listen, My Son
Part I of a series on Benedictine Spirituality explores our need to cultivate silence and listening.
Part I of a series on Benedictine Spirituality explores our need to cultivate silence and listening.
A powerful letter written by St. Elizabeth of the Trinity before her death explores humility and magnanimity–two words which may seem contradictory but need each other, Claire Dwyer explains.
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity could have led a life of worldly accomplishment. But she embraced obscurity and humility. Claire Dwyer continues her series today.
Do our thoughts linger over honors? Learn from Mary’s humility.
The reading which opens the liturgy for Palm Sunday reminds us that the Lord makes himself dependant on lowly things–and that includes us, Claire Dwyer reflects as we begin Holy Week.
Debra Black offers a meditation for the Feast of the Presentation on the humility and purity of Our Lady.
“Learning to pray, learning to open ourselves to God, is like anything else: it needs practice and it takes time. There is no accomplishment of any worth that I know of that you can attain merely by desiring to have it.” David Torkington urges us to persevere and practice prayer.
Claire Dwyer reflects on abandonment to God and the grace of a surrendered soul.
Seeing Christ in others requires always seeking the good in them. We must do this by way of patience and humility.
Growing in virtue is essential for growth in prayer, Connie Rossini explains.