Does the Church consider the Blessed Virgin Mary to be our Mediatrix? Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalen quotes popes and saints in this excerpt from his classic Carmelite meditation book “Divine Intimacy”.
St. Joseph’s ‘hard-working’ hands have much to teach us about the link between our love and our labor, Claire Dwyer reflects.
Reform in the Church must begin with prayer, just as it did in the early Church, David Torkington reminds us.
“If the heart does not pray then the tongue labors in vain.” David Torkington continues his series on prayer.
Of what benefit is reading to meditation?
The heresy of Quietism ravaged the Church in the 17th-century, but its fallout continues to the present day.
Mystical prayer was kept alive by the saints and their spirituality even in the wake of heresy, David Torkington reveals.
“It is not by suffering that a person is united with God, but by love.” With these words, Francis of Assisi was transformed and with him, the world.
St. Francis radically revolutionized the practice of prayer and spiritual life within the Church. David Torkington shares another segment of his series on prayer.
The birth of new religious orders breathed new life into the Church. David Torkington continues his history of the Mystical Tradition.
