Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister emphasizes the importance of good habits in the spiritual [contemplative] life by drawing parallels with the habits she learned as a writer: The sole writing teacher I ever had taught only five things...
[We must not] remain barricaded in our certainties . . . Are we prepared for the adventure of this journey? Or are we fearful of the unknown, preferring to take refuge in the usual . . . -Pope Francis The words above were...
In contemplative practice, we recognize within ourselves the Spirit of God, the very breath of God, present in us from the moment of our creation (“The LORD God formed the man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became...
As the spoken prayer taught most explicitly by Jesus, The Lord’s Prayer (or the “Our Father”) is typically seen as the model par excellence of effective prayer. Embedded within....”