
How Does a Person Accept God’s Mercy?
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

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

Dear Father John, you used the phrase “spiritualized capital sins” in your post on consolation and desolation. I have never heard this idea before. What

I have a bit of my own foolishness to share with you today. In my book on spiritual direction (scheduled to go to print late

Dear Father Edward, would you be willing to post the virtues to overcome the root sins of vanity and pride also? Whole libraries could be

Dear Father John, Can a root sin change over your life? It seems to me that increasingly sensuality is being replaced as a root sin

Dear Father John, I am not in spiritual direction right now, but I am trying to put together a program of life anyway. Can you

Dear Father John, Your recent comments on frustration, impatience and the need for humility and how to grow in it have been insightful and practical.

Dear Father John, I have been working on my spiritual life for a long time. But no matter how much I work on it, I