Have you ever had a prayer that you say all the time suddenly “bloom” in your heart and take on a meaning…
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Posts Categorized: Trust
How to Listen Like Jesus
I received my certificate as a Spiritual Director last May. A lot of the training focused on how to listen. During 18…
Are Mixed Motives Okay?
The robin on the power-line outside my window touts a worm in its beak. It doesn’t eat the worm right away, but…
How I Crossed the Tiber Without Sinking
Dan Burke’s website SpiritualDirection.com commissioned me to write my conversion story — and now I’m sharing it below with you! Love always,…
How to Live the Grace of the Sacraments (and become a saint)
Here’s what the devil doesn’t want you to know: There is a way to become the saint God created you to be…a…
Be Bold in the Holy Spirit
Today we experience what the ancients longed to see. “Oh, that you would tear the heavens open and come down!” (Is. 63:19)….
Relax and Hang Out With God
A lesson I re-learned this week: I am totally dependent on God to make any change in thought or behavior at all….
How to Rest in God’s Mercy
Psalm 95 tells us that if we let our hearts go astray by not listening to God’s voice, we will not enter…
Glorious Contradiction of the Cross
A Holy Week meditation by Pope St. Leo the Great (d. 461) on the glorious contradiction of the Cross of Christ, the…
Were the Saints Ever Funny? …Is the Pope Catholic?
St. Teresa of Avila prayed, “From sour and sad-faced old saints, Good Lord deliver us!” Teresa, who was known to dance around…
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