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A selection of past spiritually-enriching articles and essays

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The 17th-Century French School of Spirituality

The humanity of Christ as intensive focus for a loving devotion and as pathway to the ultimate mystery of divine presence perdures as a great lingering influence of the French school of spirituality.

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Saint Pio of  Pietrelcina

The life of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina offers us a profound appreciation, a deeper understanding, in the light of our faith, of the redemptive value of our own suffering, for ourselves and for others.

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Understanding Carmelite Spirituality

“I wanted to give my Beloved to drink, and I felt myself consumed with a thirst for souls.”

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The Bread of Life: The Gift of Real Presence

The Bread of Life is not merely a sign pointing to future eternal life. Jesus insists: “The bread I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

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Prayer for the New Pope

O God, who in your providential designwilled that your Church be built upon blessed Peter,whom you set over the other Apostles,look with favor, we pray, on Leo our Popeand grant that he,whom you have made Peter’s successor,may be for your peoplea visible source and foundationof unity in faith and of communion.Through our Lord Jesus Christ, […]

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Mary, Mother of God

Nowhere is the Fatherhood of God clearer than in the Motherhood of Mary.

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Your Word Is A Lamp

The psalms pinpoint for us the base upon which the whole religious structure is built: the fact of God.

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Contemplating the Face of Christ through the Rosary

Yes! The rosary is the beginning of this intimacy, a chance to meet Christ face to face.

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The Annunciation, Botticelli (c. 1444-1510), MET, NYC, USA. Public domain.