Every Day Is Christmas Day in the Divine Will

A sense of anticipation, a feeling of security and happiness being together as a family. The excitement, newness and brightness of hope swelling into joy. These are the impressions that characterize Christmas for me. Who is behind it all but God, calling me to Himself...

A Spiritual Bouquet for our Father

Making our first act of love of the day in the Divine Will to God is like gathering up a spiritual bouquet and presenting it to the One we love. Consider that when we celebrate various holidays or solemn events, the things we most often adorn our places of worship or...

Tying your Faith to the Divine Will and Power of God

Faith commits us to things, to actions, to achievements that are beyond our capabilities. It makes possible and, in fact, enables the good-willed aspirations of our hearts. Faith provides the space to hope and believe that God also wants the good that we want. The...

In Honor of the Holy Spirit

Jesus says: “To know the mystery of God’s nature is not granted to your very limited intellectual capacities, to your embryonic spirituality. But the mystery becomes more knowable for the spiritual, amidst the mass of the so-called spiritual. The mystery...

Why Holy Communion Leaves You Unchanged

Transubstantiation is more than a magic trick. What we join to the sublime gift of God determines what we get. Getting what you give applies no less to the spiritual life. What we bring to Communion from our lives in the days preceding will determine what we leave...