Praying Alone Together

Jesus in his discourse (Mt 6:24) speaks much more often of wealth and the wealthy than of poverty and the poor. One of the reasons for t...

“The Samaritan was a brother to the wounded one, not by reason of his religion (the priest, the Levite, and the Jew had the same religio...

"When we try to determine the human image of Jesus and His Christological message, we find ourselves faced with a task that does no...

“The originality and authenticity of Christian spirituality consists in this: that we follow a God who took upon himself our human condi...

“All Christians know what conversion is: to conform ourselves to the values the Christ taught, which brings us out of our egoism, injustic...

by Segundo Galilea The central theme of Galilea’s book is following Jesus. This is the root of Christianity and ought to be the basis of an...

(Lk 2:32-40) Our previous Bible text ended by telling us that Mary and Joseph marveled at the wonderful things that were being said abou...

(Luke 2: 22-33) “Mary and Joseph were struck by everything that was being said about Jesus when they took him to the Temple in Jerusalem...

Luke 2:1-20 “God’s ways are not our ways. Mary thought deeply about everything that took place in order to discover what God was saying. W...

(Lk 1:46-54) (PP 78-79 )The ‘false self’ is the name given by many to the way human beings seek happiness in ways that can never fully sat...

This Bit of Wisdom is the first of ten selections from Let It Be: Praying the Scriptures in Company with Mary, the Mother of God by Father J...

“Any struggle with addiction is a desert because it involves deprivation. If our motivations are primarily utilitarian, this deprivation may...

“Our choices of freedom are always pure, and in this purity faith is always an act of will. But God is not absent; God’s grace is more rad...

“The Beatitudes of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount are an unparalleled testimony to the glory of freedom from attachment. The blessedness they p...

“The choices that are open to us in response to our experiences of God’s loving, threatening call may sometimes be excruciatingly difficult ...

“We are dependent upon grace for liberation from our addictions, but those very addictions impair our receptivity to grace. The message may ...

“We are created for love and freedom, addiction hinders us, and grace is necessary for salvation. For Christians, grace is the dynamic outp...

“I can honestly say, then, that it was my work with addicted people, and the consequent realization of my own addictive behavior, that broug...

“After twenty years of listening to the yearnings of people’s hearts, I am convinced that all human beings have an inborn desire for God. Wh...

Ultimately, our yearning for God is the most important aspect of our humanity, our most precious treasure; it gives our existence meaning ...