My latest Life Lines column in the current issue of Catholic New York:
It amazes me sometimes how a casual comment, a familiar smell or the sound of a name we ...
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Our Christmas tree came down last night, along with the rest of the decorations. The magi hardly had time to settle down in front of the creche when I shipped ...
A few days ago, I happened upon a post at the lovely Abbey of the Arts blog suggesting I pick a word as a theme or focal point for the coming year. Or, more ...
I have a little (easy) exercise for you to do today, or this morning. For the next few hours, pay attention to all the noises you hear. Not just the talking ...
It's always right around this time each Advent season that I move into high holiday spirit. I take that pink candle very seriously. Gaudete! Rejoice! And with ...
Technically it's Manic Monday in these parts, but after a weekend yoga-prayer retreat at the Kripalu Center in Lenox, Mass., I'm really quite mellow. Certainly ...
I was saying bedtime prayers with 6-year-old Chiara the other night, when she stumbled over a line in the Our Father. Although she's got the standards pretty ...
I rarely go to the movies and almost never with Dennis, but last weekend I decided we were going to find the time -- make the time -- to see The Way with Martin ...
Okay, so here's the deal. About a week ago, I was in a weird place. Due to a confluence of events, I found myself wondering -- seriously -- if perhaps I'd said ...
I thought I'd share my latest Life Lines column. Life Lines has appeared monthly in Catholic New York for the past 10 years.By Mary DeTurris PoustWhen I began ...
One of my favorite parts of silent retreat is the opportunity to take the quiet of the retreat house or abbey and extend it out into the natural world. When I'm ...
Is it possible a full week has gone by since I was on retreat at the Abbey of the Genesee? Time moves so quickly, especially when time includes three kids going ...
Here we are at the start of another week. It's just another Manic Monday...
Soundtrack: Perfect for a Manic Monday, two songs on opposite ends of the emotional ...
I have Joyce Rupp's book Open the Door: A Journey to the True Self sitting on my desk next to a blank journal, just waiting for me to dive in. It was ...
From the Monastery of St. Scholastica in Subiaco, Italy.
Photo by Mary DeTurris Poust
Happy Feast of St. Benedict! Here's a snippet about St. Benedict from my ...
I was thrilled to get a chance to present my new book, "The Essential Guide to Catholic Prayer and the Mass," to Archbishop Timothy Dolan today, when he was in ...
My fourth book, "The Essential Guide to Catholic Prayer and the Mass," was released today by Alpha/Penguin with an endorsement from Archbishop Timothy Dolan of ...
In the last year or so I have become very much aware, perhaps painfully aware, of the things that hinder my spiritual life. And, as I mentioned in my last post ...
I tackle the somewhat controversial subject of whether men and women can be "just friends" on this Christopher Closeup podcast with host Tony Rossi.Some of you ...
Today, over at patheos.com, I tackle the subject of yoga -- something I love -- and how it benefits my Catholic prayer life -- something some people find ...