Etheldredasplace

So many people in America, myself included, have grown up with instant satisfaction in some many physical ways. We turn on the air-condit...

Returning to the idea of discernment as understood by St. Ignatius, an idea which I covered in some posts earlier this year and last mont...

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...

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...

Interestingly, all orders have a "character" which means the prayer of the order has a certain characteristic. For me, for ex...

The advantage of starting with Brother Lawrence is that his manner of approaching God in prayer remains one of the clearest and simplest f...

A list of truths from this phenomenal book. The finding of this book seems timely to me. This priest's writings remind me of Brother Law...