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When we call out for help, we are bound more powerfully to God through our needs and weakness, our unfulfilled hopes and dreams, and our anxieties and problems than we ever could have been through our joys, successes, and strengths alone. . . . Anxieties can gray the whole sky... Read More →

The first Christian mystics appear in the Bible, figures like John the Evangelist and Paul of Tarsus. But mysticism didn’t end when the Bible was written. Great mystics appear in every century of Christian history. By the fourth and fifth centuries, when Christianity became... Read More →

The Examen is an ancient practice that helps us detect God’s presence and discern his direction for our lives. It was initially introduced in the first half of the sixteenth century by Ignatius of Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises. Ignatius encouraged its practice on a daily... Read More →

Blessed be the Child who today delights Bethlehem. Blessed be the Newborn who today made humanity young again. Blessed be the Fruit who bowed himself down for our hunger. Blessed be the Gracious One who suddenly enriched all of our poverty and filled our need. Blessed be he whose... Read More →

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger.... Read More →