Spirituality

During Lent, we silence the Alleluia. For forty days, the word disappears from our liturgy. Then Easter explodes with it: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! We sing it over and over because death is defeated, because Christ is risen, because resurrection changes…

There are those who, when they hear St Teresa’s name, picture a stern Spanish mystic, a reformer who established seventeen convents through sheer willpower, a woman of intense prayer and rigid discipline. They imagine someone perpetually serious, perpetually holy, perpetually…

The Easter Examen is the standard Daily Examen adapted specifically for the fifty days of the Easter season. It is a ten-minute evening practice focused on noticing resurrection in your ordinary life — where life breaks through, where grace appears,…

Meet Thomas. He’s thirty-eight, an accountant, married with two kids. He spent Lent genuinely trying — trying to pray more consistently, trying to be a better person, trying to show up for his family with patience and presence. And he…

Holy Week is the most important week of the Christian year. But here’s what many people miss: this week isn’t just a memorial service where we remember events from long ago. It requires participation. We do not just recall Christ’s…

You are two weeks into Lent now. Maybe those resolutions you made on Ash Wednesday have already started to fade. Prayer feels dry, like going through the motions. The disciplines you committed to, like daily Scripture reading, extra fasting, giving…