If you are busy juggling family, friends, work, and prayer, trying to balance works of mercy with your daily duty, prayer time with household chores, and marriage with ministry, then let today’s saint be an inspiration, as she is for Claire Dwyer.
How Can a Rule of Life Help Me With Difficulties in Prayer? – Spiritual Reflections | What happens when you have a storm in your soul and it seems you just can’t pray? How can a rule of life help you to navigate these storms of the soul?
How Can Sacred Space in my Home Help Me to Pray? – Spiritual Reflections | Beauty in sacred space is very powerful and its impact on us as we seek to draw our heart and mind to prayer. How can we have this kind of impact in our own home?
Do I Need to Know Where I am In my Spiritual Growth? – Spiritual Reflections | Some people criticize those seeking to understand where they are in their spiritual growth (purgative, illuminative, unitive, etc.), is this appropriate? Should we know where we are spiritually? Is it ok to pursue this kind of knowledge?
I am Frustrated with Distractions in Prayer! How Can I Deal With This? | Spiritual Reflections – This morning I was distracted and struggled with prayer…
How Can I Find Peace in this Noisy World? | Spiritual Reflections – Are there ways we can adjust how we live in order to increase our peace or prayerfulness even in the midst of a busy environment?
Some insist that we must be balanced in our lives and especially in our spiritual commitments. A seminarian once reported that a family member said he was trying to be too holy and this is not necessary – is this a healthy perspective?
I need your help! In short, we can’t decide what to name our new podcast. But it’s more than that… This is a bit emotional,
In this chapter from her book “The Year and Our Children,” Mary Newland captures the courage exemplified by St. Stephen.
Claire Dwyer shares the beauty of the spirituality of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, who makes Carmelite spirituality accessible to the laity.
