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Five Questions That Make a Reflective Conversation More Useful
A reflective conversation can help when your thoughts feel scattered. It works best when you arrive with a real situation, rather...
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Understanding the Virtue of Meekness
In The Paradise of the Soul: Forty-Two Virtues to Reach Heaven, St. Albert the Great lists forty-two virtues, but meekness is not one of them. The word “meek,” however, is mentioned under “gentleness.”...
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St. Teresa of Avila’s Battle with Worldliness
A Reflection from “Persecuted from Within” by Joshua Charles and Alec Torres
St . Teresa
The role of reformer—or, in a sense, of re-foundress—would have seemed an unlikely one for Teresa of Avila to play,...
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“Walk With Me”: Spiritual Direction
An Excerpt from Whose Voice Are You Listening To? How to Fight and Win the Daily Spiritual Battle by Colleen OrchanianGod speaks“And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some...
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Leap of Freedom – Spiritual Direction
One of the great paradoxes of the spiritual life is that surrendering to God doesn’t make us less free—it makes us truly free.I first discovered that when I was eleven years old. At...
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The Rising Sunshine of Jesus’ Resurrection in Our Lives (Joshua 1-6)
The Word of God has the power to ground us more deeply in God’s love, grace, and plan for our lives. This has been my experience in getting settled in Rome recently, as...
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An excerpt from Practicing the Miraculous: A Field Guide to Everyday Miracles by Gabriel Kessog
The Basement Ritual
An excerpt from Practicing the Miraculous: A Field Guide to Everyday Miracles by Gabriel Kessog
In 2005, something miraculous started...
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She is Our Champion: Our Lady Under Three Mighty Titles
Not long ago here at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion, I was talking to a layman before Mass who expressed a different opinion over prayers for peace. He said, “Why...
