I was featured in a story on mindfulness that's running in the Catholic Courier of Rochester this week, so I thought I would take a few minutes to talk about ...
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I am typically a "Why me?" sort of person -- when my computer crashes, when a recipe flops, when I come home from the store without the one thing I went there ...
It has been a long five days, and we thank all of you for being there with us. We believe with all our hearts that you made a difference -- for Noah and for us. ...
We're one week into our season of Lent. How have you been doing with your plans to sacrifice more, give more, pray more? I have to admit, I'm doing just okay. I ...
My Lenten post over at HuffPost Religion:
Lent is one of those seasons that always begins with the best of intentions and rapidly goes downhill, at least ...
Headline says it all. It's going to be one of THOSE weeks. Between my out-of-town travel for a weekend retreat and the holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, ...
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 ...
Sometimes losing our serious adult demeanor for a bit and doing childlike things can take us deeper into our spiritual center than any book on prayer ever ...
My latest Life Lines column:
I was at the tail end of a silent weekend retreat a few weeks ago when I began reaching my silent prayer saturation point. ...
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. ...
"In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things came to be through him,
and ...
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 ...
My reflection from today's edition of Give Us This Day:
This past summer, when my family spent a week at the New Jersey shore, I hopped out of bed every ...
I love to read about how other people have transformed their lives into something more manageable, less stressful, more satisfying. What steps did they take? ...
My latest Life Lines column running in the current issue of Catholic New York:
Every year, when summer rolls around, I vow to work less and play more, or at ...
They had me at St. Ignatius bobblehead.
Head over to Find Your Inner Iggy to see how you might win some grand prizes today, the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola. ...
Last night a friend invited me to join her at the nearby Dominican Retreat and Conference Center in Niskayuna for vespers sung in the spirit of Taize, a prayer ...
Lessons from the monastics via Everyday Divine:
Start to look at the "life-rhythm" of your day. Is it totally out of balance, with most of your time spent ...
When I returned from my first silent retreat several years ago, I realized that my automatic response upon getting into the car was to turn up the radio. Loud. ...