January 18, 2026
Receiving Not Imposing
In our world in which so many religious convictions, ideologies and lifestyles come into increasing contact with each other, it is more important than ever to realize that it belongs to the essence …
January 17, 2026
Jesus Reaches Out to Us
Only when we have come in touch with our own life experiences and have learned to listen to our inner cravings for liberation and new life can we realize that Jesus did not just speak, but that he reached out to us in our most personal needs.
January 16, 2026
Searching Without Fear
There are just as many ways to be a Christian as there are Christians, and it seems that more important than the imposition of any doctrine or pre-coded idea is to offer the students the place where they can reveal their…
January 15, 2026
Disarming and Listening
So we can see that creating space is far from easy in our occupied and preoccupied society. And still, if we expect . . .
January 14, 2026
Creating a Spacious Place
Hospitality, therefore, means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become . . .
January 13, 2026
Remembering Our Good Intentions
Our heart might desire to help others: to feed the hungry, visit the prisoners and offer a shelter to travelers; but meanwhile . . .
January 12, 2026
Restoring Hospitality
If there is any concept worth restoring to its original depth and vocative potential, it is the concept of hospitality. . .
January 11, 2026
Compassion Causes Conversion
Compassion born in solitude makes us very much aware of our own historicity. We are not called . . .
January 10, 2026
Listening to the Pains of the World
In the solitude of the heart we can truly listen to the pains of the world because there we can recognize them not as . . .
January 9, 2026
Living From Our Hearts
Life can teach us that although the events of the day are out of our hands, they should never be out of our hearts . . .
January 8, 2026
The Courage to Fully See
Maybe, for the time being, we have to accept the many fluctuations between knowing and not knowing . . .
January 7, 2026
Looking for Hope
What if our history does not prove to be a blind impersonal sequence of events over which we have no control, but rather reveals . . .
January 6, 2026
A Response of the Heart
The movement from loneliness to solitude should lead to a gradual conversion from an anxious reaction to a . . .
January 5, 2026
Solitude of Heart
It is probably difficult, if not impossible, to move from loneliness to solitude without any form of withdrawal from a distracting world . . .
January 4, 2026
From Loneliness to Solitude
Instead of running away from our loneliness and trying to forget or deny it, we have to protect it and turn it into . . .
January 3, 2026
Vision of the Future
Often it is the dark forest that makes us speak about the open field. Frequently prison makes us think . . .
January 2, 2026
Desiring a Spiritual Life
During our life we become more aware not only of our crying loneliness but also of our real desire for . . .
January 1, 2026
A New Beginning
A new beginning! We must learn to live each day, each hour, yes, each minute as a new . . .