Spirituality (Page 3)

Make Advent this year a patient, prayerful journey toward the Christ who comes. Each week we rest in one of the seven O Antiphons: short, jewel-like titles of the Saviour that have shaped Christian prayer for a thousand years. Through…

St Teresa of Avila, the great Carmelite reformer and Doctor of the Church, offers one of the most profound descriptions of the soul’s growth in prayer through her doctrine of the four waters. In her autobiography (Chapters 11-22), she likens…

One dark night,
fired with love’s urgent longings
– ah the sheer grace! –
I went out unseen,
my house being now all stilled. St John of the Cross’ poem “One Dark Night” narrates the soul’s journey through spiritual purification…

As we journey through our own spiritual lives, we often find ourselves seeking guides, companions who have walked the treacherous and glorious paths of the interior life before us. We look for figures whose struggles mirror our own and whose…

Thérèse knew anxiety firsthand. From childhood, she experienced great sensitivity, feeling deeply every disappointment, fear or moment of rejection. Yet she discovered in her Carmelite journey that anxiety loses its grip when placed in the hands of a loving Father.…

Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Apostolic Exhortation, “Dilexi te” provides a theological and practical roadmap for the Church’s engagement with the modern world, centring entirely on the ‘Incarnation of Christ’ as the definitive model for Christian love and social action. Signed…