June 29, 2026
The Way Out is the Way In
Christian leadership is accomplished only through service. This service requires the willingness to enter into a situation, with all the human vulnerabilities….
June 28, 2026
Praying to be Free
We pray to know not only in our head, but in our heart, and in the center of our being that we are fully loved.
June 27, 2026
Keep Pointing to New Life
Hope makes it possible to look beyond the fulfillment of urgent wishes and pressing desires and offers a vision beyond human suffering and even death.
June 26, 2026
Not Forced
Jesus in his passion is the one who waits for our response. Precisely in that waiting the intensity of his love and God’s love is revealed to us.
June 25, 2026
Everything Holds Promise
For a man with a deep-rooted faith in the value and meaning of life, every experience holds a new promise, every encounter carries a new insight, and every event brings a new message.
June 24, 2026
Moving Into the Unknown
It takes courage to move away from the safe place into the unknown, even when we know that the safe place offers false safety and the unknown promises us a saving intimacy with God.
June 23, 2026
Standing Open to God
The heart means the core of our being. It includes the deep recesses of our psyche, our moods and feelings, our emotions and passions, and also our intuitions, insights, and visions.
June 22, 2026
Live in the World as a Child of God
There is no promise that everything will be rosy.
June 21, 2026
One at the Wellspring of Pain and Joy
When one has the courage to enter where life is experienced as most unique and most private, one touches the soul of the community.
June 20, 2026
Totally Loved
When we come in touch with the first love we come in touch with the center of our being where we feel totally loved without condition or limits.
June 19, 2026
Being a Person of Prayer
For a man of prayer is, in the final analysis, the man who is able to recognize in others the face of the Messiah and make visible what was hidden, make touchable what was unreachable.
June 18, 2026
Alert to the Word of God
Our waiting is always shaped by alertness to the Word of God that comes to us in such mysterious ways.
June 17, 2026
Come Home
Jesus is the host who wants to gather us around the table, the Good Shepherd who invites his people to a table where the cup is overflowing (Ps. 23).
June 16, 2026
Affecting Our Inner Life
The daily contemplation of the gospel and the attentive repetition of a prayer can both profoundly affect our inner life.
June 15, 2026
Looking for Signs of Hope and Promise
More than anything else, [the contemplative critic] will look for signs of hope and promise in the situation in which he finds himself….
June 14, 2026
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
The contemplative is not needy or greedy for human contacts, but is guided by a vision of what he has seen beyond the trivial concerns of a possessive world.
June 13, 2026
Heart Speaks to Heart
The spiritual life means that the Spirit of Love is given to us so that we can live with that Spirit within us.
June 12, 2026
Making Love Visible
It is God’s love that allows us to love one another. It is that first love that is the basis for all creative human relationships.
June 11, 2026
Nothing Human Is Alien
Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty that the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses.
June 10, 2026
Community Keeps the Flame of Hope Alive
Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.