Etheldredasplace

When Elizabeth of the Trinity had only three months of life to live, she was ordered to write on her retreat towards death. Part of this ...

Etheldredasplace: Perfection Series II:x 30 Jan 2014 Continuing the series on perfection, I have switched temporarily from Garrigou-L...

Because we have had the same reading this past week on the complaining of the Chosen People in the desert, I have re-posted this article. T...

As I sit in a little room surrounded by boxes packed and half-packed, putting things back into storage I so happily took out and rediscovere...

Many months ago, I wrote, in response to a reader's question on the efficacy of prayer, that the more one becomes holy and pure in he...

A quick posting... While most Catholics simply do not believe in Purgatory, it seems that there are some who simply do not understand t...

Saint Anthony the Hermit "There is no perfect prayer if the religious perceives that he is praying?" How do we lose ourselves in...

Lord, teach me to be generous. Teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds...

In my long perfection series, I noted again and again, the God purifies the imagination in the Dark Night. For most of us who go through thi...