Risking eternity
In our dying breath Jesus won’t ask our rationale for any of our poor choices. He will ask:
“Why were you willing to risk losing Me for eternity?
Return to grace
Each year around this time I start planning for Lent. What shall I give up? What shall I take on? Continually grasping to worldly things to console emotions and appease passions is self-punishing: we punish ourselves by stepping away from His grace. Jesus is the remedy.
In 2023 say goodbye to your past
Reflecting upon my new year’s resolutions, I realized one is missing: giving up the ‘baggage’ from my past.
Chosen
Jesus is perspective-bending. People ‘don’t know what they don’t know”; since no other perspective but our own makes sense to us, we have difficulty even acknowledging that another way of seeing exists.
Our transfiguration
On the Feast of the Transfiguration, we are reminded to listen to Him. The daily Ignatian Examen prayer gives us an opportunity to learn His voice and recognize it in the small stuff of our life.
A Caterpillar’s Perspective
A caterpillar’s struggle in the cocoon is very much like our own struggle in holiness.
A Mother’s Holy Hour
Reflections from the book, A Mother’s Holy Hour, are shared in honor of our high saint today, Mary, Mother of Grace.
Thou shalt renew the face of the earth
It is God’s design to “renew the face of the earth” by the Holy Spirit using us as His instruments. Do we believe this?
Upon His shoulders dominion rests
This week, we are celebrating the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven. As a babe kings honored Him. As a young man all abused Him. And now He will take those wounds into Heaven with Him, dignifying our humanity. Christ the King takes His proper seat at the right hand of God the Father and, with a watchful eye, oversees His dominion.
Our personal history is a story of God’s love
Through mass, the Ignatian Examen and mental prayer, our understanding of our relationship with God continues to develop and transform