Month: August 2013

22 August 2012 Feast of Mary, Mother & Queen of Heaven Novena Church Mary, my Mother and Queen of my heart, I come before you as led by Jesus. I entrust myself to you – body, heart, mind, and soul. I am totally yours. Teach me the path of perfect discipleship that I may please God […]

I choose to embrace whatever path God prefers for me. I ask only for the grace to be emptied of all self-will so that I can be perfectly obedient to His.

I opened my journal with a troubled heart, intending to write my way into prayer. Instead, my eyes fell on another old entry with words that speak to my lived situation here and now.  From an entry dated 8 April 2013: “Love is meant to be wasted,” you tell me. “Be bold and daring. Why […]

From a retreat journal entry in April 2013 Darkness cannot abide the Light. Those in darkness yearn for the light, but in so far as they have been touched by darkness, they hate the light. And so it is that they both fear and yearn for the light of Christ, attracted and repelled by the […]

Relax. You will come to be at home in the wet and dark; you will come to see beauty there and rejoice!