January 2021: Growing in the Life of the Spirit
Our Lord reminds us in Matthew 7:17-20 that we can tell good from bad trees by the fruit they bear. How we cultivate the tree of our life reveals whether…
Advent Reflections 2020
Please join us "remotely" as we celebrate Advent through our online programming. This year's content features Dr. Susan Muto's meditations on John of the Cross' Quatrain for Christmas, as well…
Jaques Hnizdovsky, "Annunciation" (1982).
December 2020: Awaiting the Coming of the Lord
“The angel said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he…
November 2020: Living in Gratefulness
“Give thanks under all circumstances” (1 Thess 5:18). To understand this imperative, we need to remind ourselves that growing in the attitude of gratitude is not a luxury for believers…
October 2020: Rhythms of Reflective Living
Charles Dickens observed in his Tale of Two Cities the oft repeated truth that this is the best of times and the worst of times. The worst is obvious. In…
September 2020: Six Rules for Formative Reading
Asked to recount what we remember about our favorite teachers, we often recall reasons why their demeanor made a lasting impression on us. They may not have been the most…
August 2020: Becoming Little Words in the Divine Word
Being attentive to every epiphany of the mystery in our own and others’ lives enables us to see ourselves in a new way—not as cogs in the machine of an…
July 2020: Habitats of Holiness
Once, at the start of a family picnic, when my then five-year-old niece seemed to have disappeared from the yard, I asked my brother to give me a minute to…
June 2020: Two Ways of Knowing God
In the two-thousand-year treasury of spiritual literature, we find two main streams that point us to different yet complementary ways of knowing and loving God. The first is cataphatic or…
New Book Release: 5-29-20
Dr. Susan Muto's latest book, A Feast for Hungry Souls, features spiritual lessons from thirty of the Church's greatest masters and mystics. These voices from the ancient, medieval, and modern…