“Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.” (Thomas Merton) Love is the...

“Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Very few of us still...

We live in a time when our lives and values are driven by accumulation and consumption. This consumerist lifestyle leads to a future of...

“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.” - Anais Nin Spirituality is seeing through the lens of the One Divine Life...

“If the you of five years ago doesn't consider the you of today a heretic, you are not growing spiritually.” (Thomas Merton) The Bible is...

“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”...

Elections and politics fully display our collective shadow, exposing deep levels of intolerance and bigotry. When we cannot face and...

If you understand it, it is not God. (St. Augustine, Sermon 117 on John 1:1) Is it God we trust, or is it our understanding of Him? We...

Our relationship with God is a divine-human, reciprocal love affair. As in a dance, in order for us to step forward, the other partner...

Meditation and contemplative prayer share many attributes. Contemplative prayer, however, is a wordless openness and relating with God,...

“Come, follow Me.” (Luke 18:22, Matthew 16:24, Mark 1:17, Luke 9:23) We can observe commandments, believe doctrines, and attend church...

The fundamental reason why we keep causing others and ourselves so much suffering is that we are ignorant about who and what we really...

Many people adopted pets to ease their isolation during the pandemic. In the absence, perhaps, of someone whose love, goodness, truth,...

Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. (Ephesians 1:4) The...

The world is finite and everything is weakening and dying. We look for something certain, strong, undying, and infinite; and religion...

Religion is from the Latin word Religare; to bind, be whole again. Saints see things in their connectedness and wholeness. Everything is...

The political noise inundating us today is of collective negativity, tension, and prejudice. This collective outward behavior is...

Love is endlessly alive and eternally life-giving. When we die, we reach the culmination of the capacity we have developed to give and to...

Sacraments are outward, visible signs of inward, invisible grace. There are different sacramental rituals in Christianity. The Catholic...

Truth is always beautiful and transformative. It cannot be furious, wrathful, or forced on anyone, or it will distort the message as the...