I woke up in the middle of the night with this psalm verse running through my head. This is not one of my "favorite" psalms and this sort of thing does not ...
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Full disclosure: I was never a big Carlos Santana fan. Okay, I wasn't really a fan at all. That is unless Rob Thomas was singing as Santana played. But then I ...
Tonight I had my Thomas Merton Fourth & Walnut moment. I watched this crowd dancing in the plaza on Atwells in Providence while we ate dinner, and all I ...
I opened my Twitter feed yesterday to find this message posted by The Clearing, a spiritual wellness website:
"Read why @MaryDTP is one of our top 25 blogs on ...
Humility has never been my strong suit, which seems somewhat odd to me because I’m not a bragger or a diva. In fact, I trend toward the low end of the ...
My prayer reflection from the December issue of Give Us This Day:
Alma Redemptoris Mater - Sweet Mother of the Redeemer
Loving Mother of the Redeemer, gate ...
German mystic Meister Eckhart once said, “If the only prayer you said your whole life was ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”
Gratitude has that kind of power, ...
Either they saved the best for last or buried me. You decide. Seriously, I'm honored to be among the 20 Catholic writers sharing Desert Island Books in this ...
It's amazing how different something can look when we are willing to see with new eyes, when we cast aside our preconceived ideas and our human need for ...
"Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest awhile." Mark 6:31
Today's Gospel reading reminded me of my fabulous five-day retreat and the Life Lines ...
This is so worth 11 minutes of your time. Denzel Washington gives a commencement address that doubles as spiritual direction. "Put God first," he told the ...
I always say that every book I write, every retreat I lead, every workshop I present takes me to the next place I need to go on my spiritual journey. I never ...
Whenever I give my retreat talk titled "Broken, Beautiful, and Beloved: Learning to See Ourselves through God's Eyes" (last weekend, for example), I quote St. ...
It's amazing how the soul finds what the soul needs.
When I was on silent retreat last month, I sat in the dining room on our final morning, staring out the ...
My Scripture reflection from today's pages of Give Us This Day:
When I was growing up, I’d sometimes get annoyed that I was named after the Blessed Mother. ...
For all those who heard me talking about our brokenness on the Morning Air Show on Relevant Radio this morning, here's the original column that sparked this as ...
Ever since I first came in contact with the writings of Thomas Merton almost 30 years ago, he has spoken to me. I know I'm not alone there. Countless people of ...
Today we honor two of my favorites: Dorothy Day and George Harrison, a seemingly unlikely pairing on the surface but not such an odd couple when you dig a ...
Today's Wisdom Wednesday is brought to you by Thomas Merton:
“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, ...
Okay, I'll admit that when I first saw this clip, I was drawn in by the Hafiz poem, one of my favorites. Because when I grow up, I want to be the sage who has ...