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The Ledges We Cling To And The Holy Longing That Will Not Let Us Go (Lectio Divina)
What do a drug addict’s first high, an alcoholic’s first drunk, and the soul’s restless searching have in common? They are all, in their own way, an answer to the call of holy longing — a longing that God placed in us before we knew we had it. Drawing on Karl Rahner’s theology of…
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The Unending End: On Love, Resurrection, and the Life That Awaits Us (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Augustine’s vision of eternal life in the City of God, this Easter Sunday Lectio Divina explores what it means that true love is not transactional but transformative — that what we give in love is given back more perfectly in the resurrection, body and spirit made new, even with the wounds this…
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Bowing Down and Breaking Open: The Washing of Feet, the Gift of the Eucharist, and the Life We Are Called to Live (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Bishop Robert Barron’s reflection on the washing of the feet and the Eucharist, this Lectio Divina explores what it truly means to follow Christ — not through imitation or performance, but through transformation. Moving through the Beatitudes as a map of kenotic becoming, it traces the shape of a life conformed to…
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The Mind of Christ: Meditation, Contemplation, and the Discipline of Love (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Ilia Delio’s call to train the mind through meditation and contemplation, this Lectio Divina explores how Jesus himself models the discipline of love — bracketing all his good works with solitary prayer, and culminating in the obediential consent of Gethsemane. A reflection on how the cycle of solitude, surrender, and outpouring becomes…
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When the Birds Sang: On Presence, Worry, and the Word Hidden in Creation (Lectio Divina)
A cabin in the woods, an aching hip, and a symphony of birdsong become the occasion for a contemplative reflection on presence, worry, and the Word of Christ hidden in creation. Drawing on Thomas Traherne’s Centuries of Meditations, this Lectio Divina explores how the natural world can startle us out of fear and into…
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What the Flesh Cannot Hold: On Felt Absence and the Love That Remains (Lectio Divina)
When God feels absent, it is not because God has withdrawn — it is because the finite flesh cannot always bear the weight of infinite love. Drawing on the cry of dereliction, the agony in Gethsemane, and the Pauline vision of a life hidden in God, this Lectio Divina explores why felt separation is…
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The God Beyond Concepts: A Contemplative Journey into Sacred Silence (Lectio Divina)
What does it mean to have no concept of God? Drawing on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and the centering prayer tradition of Thomas Keating, this Lectio Divina explores how relationship with God can deepen beyond concepts and experience can expand beyond belief — not replacing them, but fulfilling them. Through one transformative moment of contemplative…
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It’s Not Fair: On Grievance, the Cross, and the Debt We Could Not Pay (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Thérèse of Lisieux, the parable of the unforgiving servant, and the theology of kenosis, this Holy Week Lectio Divina reflects on the spiritual danger of nursing grievances — and on the cross as the horizon that recontextualizes everything we think we are owed.
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The Last Battlefield: On the Heart, Silence, and the Grace That Draws Us Home (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Anthony the Great and the desert tradition, this Lectio Divina explores the heart as both battlefield and the ground of our deepest longing — and invites us into the silence where grace does what we cannot: draw the heart home to God.
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Opening the Heart: Love, Grace, and the Practice of Saying Yes (Lectio Divina)
Every moment is an invitation to open our hearts or harden them. Drawing on Karl Rahner’s theology of grace and Elizabeth Johnson’s vision of love’s ever-widening circle, this Lectio Divina reflects on why love takes practice, why the neighbor is our primary teacher, and how Christ’s self-emptying becomes the ground of our own yes.