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What is serious to men is often very trivial in the sight of God. What...

Note: This is the seventh in a series of eight reflections over the season of...

Note: This is the sixth in a series of eight reflections over the season of...

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Note: This is the fourth in a series of eight reflections over the season of...

Note: This is the third in a series of eight reflections over the season of...

Note: This is the second in a series of eight reflections over the season of...

This is the first in a series of eight reflections over the season of Easter...

Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and...

  Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your...

It was said of Abba Agathon that for three years he lived with a stone...

It can be so tempting to think, that in our busy lives multitasking will somehow...

Modern life seems to move at full speed and many of us can hardly catch...

My word for this year is surplus. It is a word which has been working...

In 2003 my mother became seriously ill quite suddenly and died a few days later...

Several years ago, before moving to Ireland, I completed a training to teach yoga. I began the...

Today is the Feast of St. Gobnait.  I only learned about St. Gobnait after moving to...

This week we enter the long desert of the Lenten season. If you participate in...

Most of what we know about St. Brigid comes from the Life of Brigid written by the...

I am transitioning here on Patheos from my previous infrequent column (Seasons of the Soul)...

I am the living breath in a human being placed in a tabernacle of marrow,...

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Slow Living. Read other perspectives here....

If, when Pentecost arrives, you do not find yourself perplexed or amazed, consider releasing the...

Note: This is the seventh in a series of eight reflections over the season of Easter on making...

Ash Wednesday marks a threshold when we leave ordinary time to enter into the journey...