Angel of God,
my guardian dear,
to whom God's love
commits me here,
ever this night,
be at my side
to light and guard,
to rule and ...
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As we begin the first full week of Lent, I wanted to spend a few minutes talking about this 40-day journey and how we might best approach the challenge. Join me ...
As I settled into my pew at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago one recent Sunday morning, I gazed up at the beautiful interior, a feast for the eyes, and hoped for ...
Ever since I first stepped onto a mat in the late 1980s, I've been a full-fledged yoga believer. I loved the power of the physical poses and the way they ...
If you're within driving distance of New York's Capital Region and/or the lower Adirondacks, you are within retreat range! There are still a few more spots open ...
I was driving to Rochester last week to give a talk to the local chapter of Magnificat, and I decided to make the trip into a mini-retreat of sorts. I brought ...
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 ...
If you missed my latest interview on the Morning Air Show on Relevant Radio, you can catch up by clicking the link below. I'm first up so just hit play. I'm ...
My Gospel reflection from today's Give Us This Day:
I come from a big Irish-Italian family, one where the food was always delicious and plentiful. On any ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...