Further Reading on Spiritual Direction

Further Reading on Spiritual Direction

Reading books on spiritual direction is like reading books on prayer. They can be helpful, but there is no substitute for practice. The best way to learn is by doing, experimenting. Yet because there’s so much confusion surrounding it, here are some resources, from...
Further Reading on Spiritual Direction

What is Spiritual Direction?

Last week I was in the car with our three children, ages 10, 12 and 14. Our youngest is an uncommonly sensitive, thoughtful young man. He has – I don’t know how else to say it – a different kind of prayer life than his dad. When he prays, it’s just different – how he...
Advent Under the Broom Tree

Advent Under the Broom Tree

“You know the time…the hour has come for you to wake from sleep.  For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.  The night is far gone; the day is at hand.”  Romans 13:11-12 “Waiting for and hastening the coming of the day.” 2 Peter...
Catherine of Sienna

Catherine of Sienna

Catherine of Sienna was an Italian laywoman of the 14th century who died in her early 30s. Though unschooled, she was a writer whose elegant prose would not only alter the course of Italian literature, but who, many years later, would became one of a very small number...