Understanding pain

Understanding pain

When faced with pain, our natural reaction is to recoil from it and ask God why he allows it. Physical suffering can be difficult to endure, but we have to remind ourselves that God allows it for a reason. Brother Lawrence, a Carmelite monk of the 17th century,...
Prayer leads us to have a heart of tenderness

Prayer leads us to have a heart of tenderness

Pope Francis invites us to be an active Church in mission, to face the challenges of humanity and reach fearlessly “the peripheries—the human, cultural, and religious settings still foreign to the Gospel” ( Pope Video, October 2019 ). We must do this with faith and...
The joy you seek is within you

The joy you seek is within you

People have different types of memory. Some speak of auditory memory, because they identify better what they hear than what they see, while others focus on visual memory, because it is through sight that they best remember the events of their life. Others simply say...
How to live the Way of the Heart

How to live the Way of the Heart

Its important to not only meditation on the various steps of our “Way of the Heart” spirituality, but we must also seek ways to implement it into our lives, finding ways that we can turn our faith into action. Here are three practical ways to consider incorporating...
Daily offering our lives to God

Daily offering our lives to God

The Second Vatican Council highlighted the priestly dimension of our Baptism by stating that the ordinary actions of our daily lives can be offered to the Father “Together with the offering of the Lord’s body…in the celebration of the Eucharist,” and so we...