Tag: Humility

Learning to Pray Takes Time and Practice

“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.

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Identify Your Predominant Fault: An Act of Humility

Failure to recognize your predominant fault creates a barrier between you and humility. In this chapter from, “The Handbook of Spiritual Perfection,” author Philip Dion bridges this gap so that we may become more virtuous individuals.

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The Works of Jesus

How are we to go about doing the apostolic work which God has called us to? Find out when Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalen reflects in an excerpt from his classic Carmelite meditation book “Divine Intimacy”.

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The Great Mystery is Accomplished

What can we learn from the mystery of the birth of God in time? Why is it so great and so necessary? Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalen reflects in this excerpt from his Carmelite meditation classic “Divine Intimacy”.

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