Spirituality
Spiritual Intelligence
Spiritual Intelligence: A New Way of Being, Brian Draper, Lion, 2009. We know about rational intelligence (remember those IQ tests at school?). And emotional intelligence (you’ve read Daniel Goleman’s best-seller Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ). So if our cognitive and affective behaviors can be measured in terms of performance, someone had […]
Famous Prayer of St. Augustine
‘Good, all-powerful God, who cares for every one of us, as if you care for us alone; and who cares for us all, as if all were but one! O God, our parent, supremely good, beauty of all beauty, to you we entrust whatever we have received from you, and so shall we lose nothing. […]
Famous Prayer by Thomas Merton
O Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me, I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. […]
Rest
Rest is as sustaining as the air we breathe and as refreshing as the water we drink. Wanting to function at peak level during our daily activities, we know it’s important for us to get enough sleep.There may be times, however, when we are physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted. When all around us is chaos […]
Women and Ministry (David M. Scholer)
My Fifty Year Journey with Women and Ministry in the New Testament and in the Church Today 1 by David M. Scholer There is something uncomfortable with writing about your own life; it can be self-promoting. On the other hand, we thrive on personal stories; this is especially true for feminists, I think. My students […]
St. Francis – the Greatest Christian since the first century?
Response from a net-friend: Well now, I realize Francis has always been highly respected in the West, but I still think that if you Google “Life St. Seraphim Sarov” or “Life St. John Kronstadt” you will get a pretty good idea why I have to balk at the idea of Francis as “greatest Christian since […]
Pray as you can
July 12, 2005 Romans 8:26-39; Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 by Rachel M. Srubas “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words” (Romans 8:26). I was raised in a middle-class, suburban family for whom religion, […]
By Way of the Desert
By Way of the Desert: 365 Daily Readings, ed. Bernard Bangley (Continuum, 2007) The Desert Fathers and Mothers were (Christian) people who from early church times sought solitude in desert-places. Their aim: to get away from the temptations and distractions of ‘the world’ to seek the truth about God, themselves, and the human condition. They […]
Taking God to Heart (Brian Gallagher)
Review: Taking God to Heart, by Brian Gallagher MSC, St Pauls 2008. When our family returned home in 1983 after a couple of years in North America, I had two important questions to ask my friends: ‘Who is reputed to be the most discerning Spiritual Director in Melbourne? And who’s the best teacher of Spiritual […]
Prayers for Dedication of a Business Enterprise
_Outside the doorway_ May God give His blessing on this place. God bless it from roof to floor, from wall to wall, from end to end, from its foundation and in its covering. In the strong name of the Triune God: all evil be banished, all disturbance cease, captive spirits freed, God’s Spirit alone dwell […]
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