GOD’S UNNATURAL FAMILY
Joseph would not be the natural father of a child by Mary; instead, he would be the adoptive father to multitudes of children raised up by the reconciling work of Jesus.
WHEN LOVE IS GREATER
I’m convinced that the love that I ultimately express can only come through from God.
REMEMBERING ABRAHAM IN TIMES OF DESOLATION
Lord of all consolation, help us to always seek you. Give us strength and courage in times of desolation.
A CONSPIRACY OF GRACE
Perhaps Lent is a conspiracy of grace – an invitation to receive and witness grace that is deeply humbly as well as expansively freeing.
DEEP CALLS TO DEEP
This season, I sense a deep cry inside that gently but persistently calls me to return to the desert. Here, my soul can shed the false illusions and willfulness that ruled me.
MOURNING BECOMES GLADNESS
Lent is for rediscovering that we are created for the inextinguishable flame, not for ashes that immediately disappear.
RELUCTANT PROPHETS
Fear is often present when facing the unknown. However, if we let fear govern, we will only find ourselves running from the good.
THIS IS HOW YOU ARE TO PRAY
Sometimes, all I can do is trust in my Father, who art in Heaven, whose will and plans for me are better than I could ever dream.
POVERTY OF HEART
Perhaps what my husband or wife lacks, what my children lack, what my parents lack, is not clothes or food. Perhaps they lack love, because I do not give it to them.
ON BREAD ALONE
No matter how much we are able to accomplish by our own will, true contentment and peace will only come from resting in the assurance that God is always present in our lives.
GRACIOUS DISCIPLESHIP
Perhaps instead of wondering about how we are to follow Christ, we may reflect on the gift of this invitation to discipleship.
THE FASTING GOD WISHES
For a long time, I missed the deeply communal dimension of self-denial: to enrich others.
LISTENING INTENTLY
How am I to make time this Lent to pause, to listen, and to notice God moving in my life?
COMPANIONS OF JESUS
Though I came to realize prayers are not answered with a single, dramatic event but through a gradual, sidewinding process.
DEEPLY IN LOVE
How will falling deeply in love with Jesus who is deeply in love with us decide what we do?
MUTUAL FRIENDS
“Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have." – Lk. 24:39
HUNTING THE GOD STUFF
It is an Ignatian practice to “find God in all things”. Could this be made easier by finding “good in all things?” Perhaps then, where there is good, there you will find God.
SEEING JESUS THROUGH THE EYES OF MARY MAGDALENE
Let us borrow the eyes of Mary Magdalene so we can love Jesus and be joyous that our dear friend and savior has risen.