Etheldredasplace

How very pleasing to God is the willing desire to suffer for Him. "Very pleasing to Me, dearest daughter, is the willing desire to b...

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...

Silent Prayer: "...not meditation in which the soul is occupied in considering ideas, concepts and images, but a wordless, intuitive...

A few months ago, when I was in southern Illinois for several months, I lived in a house which belonged to a friend of mine. He was selli...

Looking towards the darkness where one finds God is a metaphor for the seeking of purgation and cleansing of all sin in order to be illumi...

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...

Starting now... perhaps the most useful approach to prayer for the laity--the Jesuit method. I want to begin with a basic idea that the...

In my twenties, my late twenties to be exact, I was involved in three areas of lay work in the Church. As Pope Benedict told us not to use...

"Our prayer brings great joy and gladness to our Lord. He wants it and awaits it. By his grace he can make us as like him in inward bei...

Hope grows out of the realization of one's own sin and God's love for each one of us. Hope must be based on reality-the reality of...

Long ago in the perfection series, and in the posts on St. Bernard, I referred to the sin of accidie. Here is the long definition. It is ...

This will be the last posting on Raissa'a Journal , at least for a while. I shall move on to another book soon. I want to merely highl...

Years ago, my spiritual director at the time told me that he personally knew the priest who brought Jean-Paul Sartre back to the Church j...

One of the things which has struck me in my own life is the fact that I really do not care about outward things. I must care about eating...

Twenty-three years ago in Sherborne, I had this set of dishes! A holy man told me recently that it is easier for those who have trained ...