It is great wisdom to know how to be silent. Look at neither the remarks nor the deeds nor the lives of others.
Category: Faith & Spiritual
I want to be free
Discovered this in an undated draft. Everything written here still holds true for me today. There is only one thing that matters – the salvation of souls. The salvation of my soul and the salvation of all souls. Jesus Christ became man and died for my sins to set me free. Free from all that […]
‘Wake up, my child. Wake up before death wakes you up.’
(Excerpt from Ron Rolheiser’s “The Shattered Lantern”) In his autobiography, “Report to Greco,” Nikos Kazantzakis tells how as a young man he went to visit a then-famous monk. He describes his encounter as follows: Working up courage, I entered the cave and proceeded toward the voice. The ascetic was curled up on the ground. He […]
The grace of loneliness
Perhaps to help me experience the longing of Advent more keenly this year, God decided to send my husband away for a month-long work trip half the world away. I don’t think I’ve even allowed myself to acknowledge just how much I miss my best friend and spiritual companion. In all my life I’ve always […]
Fr Robert Barron, Lecture on Gaudium et Spes
In the bible, freedom is the disciplining of desire so as to make the achievement of the Good first possible and then effortless.
Tepid lover
I discovered a great scandal today. I found out that I who have so often burned with passion to make disciples of others am merely a tepid lover of Christ myself. I realised that although I have been touched by God’s love and have decided irrevocably to follow Him come what may, my heart is […]
Wonderful
It is a wonderful thing to fail; to come face to face with my impotence and my inability to excel in the spiritual life. It is a wonderful thing to desire God and then to find that perhaps I still do not love God with all my heart, and that I am powerless to make […]
Office of Readings
Stand firm, immovable in your resolve, doing your full share continually in the task the Lord has given you, since you know that in the Lord’s service you cannot labour in vain.
Message to a soldier for Christ
Why are you surprised when you meet resistance on the way to heaven? How else will you be trained so that you can have the endurance and strength to make the journey and bring others with you? If your heart is truly set on heaven, then welcome the trials that come your way for all […]
A sinner’s reflection on All Saints’ Day
Solemnity of All Saints, 1 November 2013 How often have I proclaimed the Gospel to others with words, telling them that the Kingdom of God is like a pearl of great price which is worth selling everything for? Yet this proclamation of mine has no power to convert souls unless my life resonates with my […]
Journey of the Heart 