February 13, 2026
Called to be Fruitful
In our contemporary society, with its emphasis on accomplishment and success, we often live as if being productive is the same as being fruitful.
February 12, 2026
Holy Contagiousness
Countless people experience their existence as dull, boring, stagnant, and routine. They lack vitality, a deep desire to be alive.
February 11, 2026
The Intimacy of God’s House
Living in the intimacy of God‘s house, we gradually come to know the mysterious truth that the God who loves us with a perfect love, includes all people in that love without diminishing in any way the unique quality of God‘s love for each individual person.
February 10, 2026
Belonging to All Humanity
The mystery of the incarnation reveals to us the spiritual dimension of human solidarity.
February 9, 2026
A Fearless Space
God alone is free enough from wounds to offer us a fearless space.
February 8, 2026
The First Love
The first love says: “You are loved long before other people can love you or you can love others.
February 7, 2026
Intimacy with God
By entering into the intimacy of our inner most self, Jesus offers us the opportunity to enter into his own intimacy with God.
February 6, 2026
Place of True Belonging
The perfect love about which St. John speaks, embraces and transcends all feelings, emotions, and passions. The perfect love that drives out all fear is the divine love in which we are invited to participate.
February 5, 2026
Make Your Home in Me
When Jesus says: “Make your home in me as I make mine in you,” he offers us an intimate place that we can truly call “home.”
February 4, 2026
The House of Christ
Why is there no reason to fear any longer? Jesus himself answers this question succinctly when he approaches his frightened disciples walking on the lake:
February 3, 2026
The Lord’s Reassuring Voice
Though we think of ourselves as followers of Jesus, we are often seduced by the fearful questions the world presents to us.
February 2, 2026
Love Filled Answers
When we consider how much our educational, political, religious, and even social lives are geared to finding answers to questions born of fear…
February 1, 2026
Resisting Fearful Questions
The agenda of our world - the issues and items that fill newspapers and newscasts - is an agenda of fear and power. It is amazing, yes frightening, to see how easily that agenda becomes ours.
January 31, 2026
We Love Because He First Loved Us
The mystery of God‘s presence can be touched only by a deep awareness of his absence.
January 30, 2026
Prayer is Grace
We cannot force God into a relationship. God comes to us on his own initiative, and no discipline, effort, or aesthetic practice can make him come.
January 29, 2026
Beyond Reaching Out
Reaching out to our innermost self was not just a reaching out to more of ourselves, to more detailed understanding of our inner complexities.
January 28, 2026
Meeting the Uncreated God
We still have a long way to go before we are ready to meet our God, not the God created by our own hands or mind, but the uncreated God out of whose loving hands we are born.
January 27, 2026
Prayer: Most Human of all Human Acts
It is the most human of all human acts, it is also easily perceived as the most superfluous and superstitious activity.
January 26, 2026
Eternally Real God
The movement from illusion to prayer undergirds and makes possible the movements from loneliness to solitude and from hostility to hospitality, and leads us to the core of the spiritual life.
January 25, 2026
Fulfillment in Powerlessness
Our fulfillment is in offering emptiness, our usefulness in becoming useless, our power in becoming powerless.