Jesus, First My Brother
"You ravish my heart, my sister, my bride, you ravish my heart with one glance of your eyes....How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride." (SOS 4:9-10). "O that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at…
The Treasure of Hiddenness
“Be intent on things above rather than on things of earth. After all, you have died! Your life is hidden now with Christ in God. When Christ our life appears, then you shall appear with him in glory” (Col. 3:2)…
Put Out Into the Deep
“At present I believe, but in the glory to come...what appears to me at present so perplexing, so foolish, so inconsistent...will all be entrancing, and will delight me eternally by the beauty, order, knowledge, wisdom, and incomprehensible wonders it will…
The Particularity of Divine Mercy
Happy the soul that has trusted in your goodness and has abandoned herself completely to your mercy. Her soul is filled with the peace of love. You defend her everywhere as your own child. -Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska Decades ago…
Come and Taste the Wisdom of St. Ignatius
To my dear sisters in Christ, I wish I had had it in my power to whisk you all to the "student" seats at the Theology of the Body Institute at Black Rock Retreat Center here in Eastern Pennsylvania last…
Intercessors with Jesus
How easily the words "I will keep you in my prayers" can slip out of my mouth when I am moved by the need of another. Not that those words are insincere, but my good intentions intersecting my distracted mind…
Beauty and Intimacy with God
Brutal. The only word to describe that interchange between my spouse and me years ago. A lifetime of unexamined wounds punching hard, my tender places receiving their blows... I was in tatters, grieving past all grief. With the lens the…
The Sacredness of Night
St. Elizabeth of the Trinity writes, "O my beloved Christ...I wish to be a bride for Your heart...I ask You to identify my soul with all the movements of Your Soul...I want to spend my life in listening to You.
The Sacrament of Home
Bonnie shares how the Incarnation permeates every aspect of our humanity, opening Heaven to the home-ness as a window on eternity.