Authentic Awakening in Prayer
I used to curse my emotions. The chill of fear, the pang of disappointment, or being momentarily happy only to eventually fall from cloud nine…
I used to curse my emotions. The chill of fear, the pang of disappointment, or being momentarily happy only to eventually fall from cloud nine…
In my last post, I drew a connection between my mental fumblings (throwing the wrong things away, losing car key possession) and my living on…
At the beginning of Lent, I was convinced the best way for me to feel close to God was in silent, contemplative solitude. I still…
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August 15 is the feast of the Assumption. According to Catholic tradition, at the end of Mary’s earthly life, she was assumed body and soul…
The word God speaks to us is our life. Sit quietly and ask yourself the following question: What really fills me with joy and passion?…
Fast from dinner. Pray for those who are unable to enjoy a meal today. Give the cost of your meal to the FPG bowl.
“Oh, I can’t meditate. I tried it. My mind won’t shut up.” This is the most common rejection I hear when counseling people that daily meditation may help them. People think they can’t meditate.
At the beginning of March, Philip Groning’s film Into Great Silence—a two-hour and forty-minute meditation on life in the Grande Chartreuse Carthusian monastery in southeastern…