I sit here on the veranda of my cell, watching the sun set behind the trees, and recall the day, nearly fifty years ago, when...
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Category: Spirituality
The Person Behind the Labels St Teresa of Avila is often regarded as the quintessential Catholic mystic, famous for her visions and her experiences of...
Who Was he? It seems fitting that a spiritual classic that emphasizes ‘unknowing’ is written by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. We can be...
A Lockdown Visualisation – 14th Century version Picture yourself entering a bare room attached to a stone church. The room has just a small window...
In the beginning there is struggle and a lot of work for those who come near to God. But after that there is indescribable joy....
“My brothers, my brothers, God has called me to walk in the way of humility, and showed me the way of simplicity … The Lord...
Franciscan priest Richard Rohr, set up the Center for Action and Contemplation back in the 1980s in New Mexico, USA. Author of numerous books, he...
There are many stories of how the Little Flower has intervened in the sufferings of ordinary Irish people. Statues and pictures often depict her as...
The Sermon on the Mount – That’s all very well but in the real world … Let’s be honest, once we get over the fact...
Christian Mystic Cynthia Bourgeault Responds Cynthia Bourgeault is a modern day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader. She has been a long-time...
