Acquiring the Taste of Heaven
Lent is the great season of acquiring better tastes. We let go of some good but lesser things, in order to increase our hunger for even better things—and for God himself.
My Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
When I reflect on the image of the Sacred Heart, I realize that, at a first glance, it is not such a warm image. After all, it is a bleeding heart, punctured and surrounded by a crown of thorns.
Excerpt from The 10:10 Challenge – The Corporal Works of Mercy
Jesus communicates with a staggering and perhaps unsettling clarity what the call of discipleship looks like in a world of winners and losers, powerful and weak, haves and have-nots. The sick, the impoverished, the imprisoned, the foreigner don’t only need aid from those who can help, but . . .
Can we really change for the better?
Changing the rhythms of our lives to receive more of God is difficult, but we can consciously work on this using the best advice for personal organization and habit formation available from modern and classic sources alike.