I’ve added a reflection on the Mass readings for the Solemnity of All Saints, which seeks to uncover more deeply the beauty (and beautiful possibility!) of holiness for each one of us.

To Be Pure as He is Pure

This is a short reflection on the true nature of Ignatian “indifference” or “interior openness,” which has risen from a number of conversations I have had concerning discernment. These conversations have clarified more deeply for me the way in which God’s Love enfolds us at every step of our lives, at every moment of our process of discernment, and that he alone can hold and satisfy our deepest desires (not merely a particular vocational path). Only within this prior and all-enveloping relationship with our loving Father can the particular path of vocation then freely unfold.

Interior Openness

I’ve added the second reflection on obedience, in which I try to go deeper into the awesome beauty of God’s love, which is the source of his “authority,” his ability to speak a word of power into the depths of our hearts and to awaken in us the desire that draws us into ever deeper intimacy with him, beyond our darkness and fears…like Peter walking on the crashing waves in order to place his hand in the hand of Jesus.

The Risk of Love: How Obedience Opens the Way to Deeper Intimacy

I’ve added another reflection of prayer and communion with God, this one being the first of two on the meaning of Christian obedience as an expression of our acceptance of God’s love as his beloved children…the overflow of our union with him into the concreteness of our life.

Receiving the Gift of Love: The True Freedom of Christian Obedience

Here’s another meditation on prayer and the invitation to intimate relationship with God, especially looking at the beauty of “spiritual poverty” as openness to the true wealth of communion with God’s all-enfolding Love.

Dilated by the Touch of Mystery: The True Wealth of Christian Poverty

He Who Sees Me Sees the Father

I have added a reflection on the invitation to seek the face of God that lies at the heart of the Gospel, the invitation to gaze into the Father’s loving countenance revealed in the face of Jesus Christ–this beatitude that lies at the heart and the summit of Jesus’ gift, which is intimacy with God, from which the other elements of the Christian life flow and to which they return.

Bathed in the Light of His Face

I’ve uploaded a reflection on prayer that I wrote yesterday evening, focusing on the deep thirst in our hearts for love and intimacy, and what happens when this thirst encounters God’s ardent thirst for us–an encounter mediated through the experience of His loving gaze.

Those Healing Eyes of Love

The following is a reflection on the “transformation of heart” that occurs through the encounter with God in prayer, the first of hopefully many writings on prayer and the spiritual life.

Transformed in the Light of His Gaze