Integrity, my God, is tried in the crucible of suffering. It is deepened and grows, blossoming more fully through the experience of darkness and pain, stretching the heart beyond its comfort and ease, drawing it also beyond superficial contentment, not to lead it to a place of desolation and emptiness, Read more…
I. After you hear the Father’s words, “You are my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,” the Spirit leads you into the desert, there to be tempted by Satan. What is this, the only Son entering into our place of estrangement, tempted as we are, in every way, Read more…
As we come again to the beginning of Lent, a question we all perhaps tend to ask ourselves is: “What does God desire from me?” From my own experience and from my relations with others, it seems to me that we have an ingrained tendency to think we need to Read more…
True human maturity lies in the rediscovery of childhood, in our return to the deepest truth of our hearts, where we drink from the very wellspring of our existence flowing unceasingly from the Heart of the Trinity. As in the beginning of our life all was pure gift, so also Read more…
The primary work of mercy is the forgiveness of sin. God compassionately bends down to me, the sheep that has gone astray–after many days or years of searching for me impatiently–and bears me up on his shoulders. He runs out to meet me, the prodigal son returned home, and falls Read more…
There is deep evidence that the Lord has been at work in his Church in an intense way in recent years, drawing the souls of the faithful back to the very heart of the Gospel. In the midst of great evil and suffering, he has been issuing a word of Read more…