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A selection of past spiritually-enriching articles and essays

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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 Rosary: Present to the Event of Jesus Christ

The rosary is our standing invitation to be more and more with Jesus Christ in joy, in light, in sorrow, and in glory.

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The Schools of Spirituality: A Summary

There is a danger in the study of spirituality. An old friend once called it “the curse of the pointer.” As we study and try one method of prayer and then another, we can point to this insight and that gripping passage.

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