Devotions

I had a powerful mystical encounter today while I was talking with a friend and...

Yesterday's lectionary reading included a passage from Deuteronomy 26 that gives instructions on what the...

1 John 4 is one of the most comforting and life-giving chapters of the whole...

Thomas a Kempis was a 15th century German monk who wrote The Imitation of Christ,...

Today's Daily Office reading included two verses from a psalm that comprise an awesome prayer...

Yesterday morning at our church staff meeting, we read the story of Jesus' double-healing of...

I stumbled across a beautiful passage in my scripture reading today: 1 Timothy 4:4-5. Paul...

Jesus says some pretty wild things, but this week's lectionary reading includes one of his...

God spoke to me this weekend through some loving criticism I got about my blog...

At the basilica's Monday mass, the epistle reading was from 1 John 4, which includes:...

At our church staff meeting today, we looked at this reading from Matthew 11:25-30: At...

For about the past year, God has been giving me verses from psalms to memorize...

The gospel reading at my Monday mass was Luke 7:1-10, the story of the centurion...

Today's Monday Merton comes from chapter 10, "Sincerity," of No Man Is An Island. What Merton...

The Daily Office reading for yesterday was the opening of Paul's second letter to the...

For this week's Monday Merton, I am drawing from chapters 8 and 9 of No...

These Monday Merton quotes are taken from chapter 7, "Being and Doing," of No Man...

I'm pre-loading my Monday Mertons for the next two weeks in my insomnia before leaving...

The chapter for Monday Merton this week is very apropos. We just started a blogger's...

I came across the Biblical context of the Wesleyan doctrine of Christian perfection in yesterday's...

Today's Monday Merton is a chapter in Thomas Merton's No Man Is An Island that...

I'm pretty exhausted from having had two retreats back to back this weekend and preparing...

The lectionary reading for last week was taken from Revelation 21-22 which describes the New...

The Daily Office reading for today was Romans 14:13-23. I was particularly struck by verses...

I overslept this morning and I need to get out to my lake to walk...

I had a powerful encounter with today's Daily Office reading. The gospel reading was John...

I  had a very uncanny experience today with the Daily Office. In a blog post...

Whoever is not against us is for us. Whoever is not for me is against...

The Daily Office epistle for today was Galatians 2:11-21. In it, Paul talks about his...

Isaiah 61 was the Daily Office Old Testament reading for today. Some of you will...