Praying Alone Together

Salvation History There are countless ways the Bible has been used and abused down through history. We need to continuously return to a simp...

Teresa has this powerful and relevant statement in this crisis of “moving on up” from the third dwelling places to the fourth dwelling pla...

Teresa of Avila lays out a map for seeking God in her classic on the spiritual life, The Interior Castle. She describes seven stages or dwel...

Part Two For St. Teresa of Avila, it is the personal encounter in following Jesus that unveils the loving mercy of God. This gift has its pr...

Jesus walks into our lives through the Gospels. The Gospels are a privileged part of the word of God. The Gospels give us today, as they hav...

The Carmelite tradition states clearly that we are called to union with God. This is the goal of our full human development. This is the pil...

Jesus taught the people to start from where they were in their life situation. Jesus then invited them into the mystery of the kingdom. Ther...

The Real Difficulty in Prayer: God’s Attitude A little bit of our heart is never enough. God is never satisfied unless we offer ourselves co...

Christian Meditation A second method of prayer is Christian Meditation. It is truly different in its approach from lectio divina and other f...

An Opportunity for Deep Personal Prayer The Prayerful Reading of the Bible: Lectio Divina Vatican II brought the word of God in the Bible to...

An Opportunity for Deep Personal Prayer I The People’s Experience of God The Bible is a love story of God and his people. It is simple and c...

Prayer of Petition: Complex and Easily Distorted  I There are two fundamental points about the prayer of petition. We start with an awarenes...

In the very first days of his Pontificate, Pope Francis proclaimed the importance of prayer. In a daily homily he said: “The Lord tells us t...