I have a developed a thing for the Jesuits. Last year I read a year devotion set out by the Irish Jesuits titled Sacred Space and loved it.Okay did not exactly finish this one.Read the first 75 pages or so.Skipped according to topic thereafter.Getting on a bit of a theological overload at the mo...
This book is a life-changer. It has given me answers to questions that has been bothering me since. Reading it also came at an opportune time for me because I was also making a conscious effort to deepen my relationship with God and the Ignatian spirituality is what I really want to practice. It ...
I had an acting teacher who was soooooo "Buddhist," she'd make us meditate for the first twenty minutes of every class - and then spent the rest of the class screaming swear words at me for not playing a fairy well enough to her liking. Yeah, okay. Thank goodness for this book, for I was discov...
Father Martin argues that the spiritually-awakened life is above all one of joy. He is responding to what he sees as an over-emphasis on seriousness in religion—Catholicism, in his case, though he’s insistent that he sees the mistake in most religious traditions. While there is a place for sadnes...
ONE AFTERNOON, IN THE middle of our stay at the Franciscan hostel and after a full day of visiting sites on the Sea of Galilee, George and I found ourselves with a few free hours before dinner. Scouting around for a place to pray, I walked onto the veranda of the chapel that serves as the centerp...
And we can notice God not only in peak moments, like the ones we just discussed, but also in daily events where God’s presence is often overlooked. God is always inviting us to encounter the transcendent in the everyday. The key is noticing. This insight—that finding God is about noticing—helps t...