Spirituality

By:
On:
In: Spirituality
Thérèse of Lisieux entered the Carmelite convent at fifteen, expecting to do great things for God. She imagined herself as a missionary, a martyr, a spiritual warrior. Instead, she spent nine years in a cloistered community doing laundry, washing dishes,…

By:
On:
In: Spirituality
Can John of the Cross, the poet who wrote about “the dark night”, possibly have anything to say to people celebrating resurrection and new life? Easter shouts triumph, light, joy, victory over death. John whispers darkness, emptiness, unknowing, the via…

By:
On:
In: 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…

By:
On:
In: Spirituality
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…

By:
On:
In: Spirituality
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,…

By:
On:
In: Spirituality
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…

By:
On:
In: Spirituality
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…