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The Solitude That Connects Us: Communal Aloneness in Christ (Lectio Divina)
There is a strange aloneness that accompanies spiritual awakening — the sense that no matter how far we fall into God’s presence, no one around us can fully follow. This Lectio Divina takes that loneliness seriously, tracing it from the prophets broken open in the wilderness and the pit, through the utterly singular encounters…
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When the Dead Remain: On Grief, Friendship, and the Communion of Saints (Lectio Divina)
Some losses arrive quietly — not as rupture, but as presence. In this Lectio Divina, Robert Van Valkenburgh reflects on the memory of a dear friend who died last year: a man who introduced him to Catholicism more than twenty-five years ago and whose silent faithfulness he is only now able to see and…