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My Vocation Is Love: Thérèse of Lisieux (Lectio Divina)
Every calling, whether married, ordained, vowed, or single, is said to lead to love, and Thérèse of Lisieux claims love itself as her vocation. But love is more than a feeling, and more than a task we take up, and the question beneath her words is hard to set down: what, or who, are…
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Held by the Whole Church: Leo the Great and the Aid God Sends Through Others (Lectio Divina)
If Christ is the only way to the Father, why does God surround us with so many helpers: friends, Saints, angels, a whole Church? Saint Leo the Great says the Apostles’ aid does not cease, and the question beneath his words is hard to set down. Are these helpers standing between us and God,…
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Faith Comes by Hearing: Thomas Merton and the Gift of Contemplation Within the Church (Lectio Divina)
What if Christ never shouts, and the pain that finally gets our attention was never the way He wanted to reach us? Thomas Merton says contemplation begins with faith, and faith with hearing, yet hearing is hard when we keep running from the very quiet that could hold us. What does it mean to…
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Remaining To Be Fed: Brother Lawrence on Faith, Stability, and the Daily Bread of God’s Presence (Lectio Divina)
Most of us know the restlessness Brother Lawrence is describing — the impulse to move on, to find something fresher, more alive, more suited to where we are right now. What we rarely notice is how much of what we are searching for is already being given. This reflection traces the gap between the…