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.
Reflecting upon my new year’s resolutions, I realized one is missing: giving up the ‘baggage’ from my past.
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.
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 struggle in the cocoon is very much like our own struggle in holiness.
Reflections from the book, A Mother’s Holy Hour, are shared in honor of our high saint today, Mary, Mother of Grace.
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?
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.
Through mass, the Ignatian Examen and mental prayer, our understanding of our relationship with God continues to develop and transform
In true Hope, we walk with Jesus helping to carry His cross and knowing that it is only through Him that we may one day bask in the light of God’s face. Every small suffering, frustration or regret is opportunity for relationship with Him.