May 2022: Lessons from the Desert
A voice cries out: In the wilderness prepare The way of the Lord, And make straight in the desert A highway for our God. --Isaiah 40:30 The quest for solitude,…
February 2022: Living in Obedience
…obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always to the end of the age (Mt 28:20). The virtue of obedience invites us to listen to God’s inviting,…
Prison Literature and the Spiritual Life
This 4-part series will be offered every other Monday, beginning June 13, from 6:30-8:30pm at the Epiphany Academy. We will explore the prison literature of four inspiring Christian authors. Each…
July 2021: Being Free by Being Obedient
Human freedom does not mean doing what we want to do when we want to do it. Our freedom is always situated and limited. A man born and raised in…
June 2021: Place of Play in Our Spiritual Life
Observing the carefree play of children on a summer’s day awakens a sense of lost innocence in all of us. How is it that we have become so earnest about…
Wise Words from 17th Century England
This 5-session series, facilitated by Dr. Steve Geitgey, will consider the wisdom of several English writers from the 17th century, focusing on their relevance to our modern-day spiritual formation. From…
March 2021: Moving into Meditation
Have you ever said to yourself or heard others say, “I can’t meditate. I don’t know how my mind races here and there, no matter how hard I try to…
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…
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…
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…