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…
May 2020: Spirit of Fire and Light
The Holy Spirit, our “Advocate” (Jn 14:26), is the Director of all directors, who guides our life’s formation as a whole. The Spirit breathes courage in us when we feel…
Lenten Meditations 2020
Each Palm Sunday, we offer a Lenten Evening of Reflection that features Scripture, music, and sacred poetry. Although we are not able to gather together this year due to the extraordinary…
April 2020: The Hidden Life
“…your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col 3:3). To understand what it means to be “hidden with Christ” leads us to the writings of St. Thérèse of Lisieux…
February 2020 • Moving from the Pain of Loneliness to the Joy of Solitude
On one of her trips to the United States, St. Teresa of Calcutta lamented that the disease of the West is loneliness. In her book, Essential Writings (NY: Orbis Books,…