Tag: Catholic Spirituality

Part 4 of Mark's series of reflections on Lent We now move on in our Lenten series to discuss the third of the Jewish acts...

Confusing feelings and distractions in prayer can teach us I had a baffling prayer experience the other morning. In retrospect, the solution was fairly obvious,...

For whatever reason, I was struck today by a line I've heard hundreds of times: Although they go forth weeping, carrying the seed to be sown, They...

Some years ago, my father-in-law told me that a book had been written about his mother. His mother had been a simple village woman in Lebanon. She worked helping other women in the village give birth.

We need to stop and prayerfully ask ourselves, ‘What actions will really lead to the renewal of our parishes?’

Sydney priest Fr Josh Miechels shares his lockdown lessons from France Lockdown is not fun. But it doesn’t mean it can’t be lived peacefully. Especially when...

We weren't the rosary-praying kind, but it is changing us My husband and I agreed: It's not that it's magic, or anything. It's definitely not...

Last time in this space, we discussed Virtue Signalling, the rather common human tendency to do good things for selfish reasons. We discussed the...

I forget what it was I was offering up, but I told the Lord, "I'm offering this up to you, and I'll try to...

“Are you a Glass Half Full or Glass Half Empty type?” is a common enough question. The Glass Half Full type is, depending on who...