Let us love silence and recollection. When we are at home with silence we are at home with God. Silence seems impossible …
Saints
December 10, 2025
I believe strongly in corporal penance as a means to the end. But a denial of your own will often costs more …
December 7, 2025
I want you to make a greater effort to see the hand of God in everything that happens, and then to force …
December 6, 2025
Xavier’s hour has come, the hour of his eternal reward and never-ending bliss. In a little hut, open on all sides to …
December 3, 2025
Use your faults as stepping stones to better things. Don’t bemoan your faults and falls, but quietly take it out of yourself …
December 2, 2025
The great light of this retreat, clear and persistent, has been that God has chosen me, in His great love and through …
December 1, 2025
Vince teipsum (Conquer yourself). This is the secret of the Exercises. “I learnt no other lesson from my master Ignatius,” said St. …
November 28, 2025
The chief thing God wants from me at present is an extraordinary and exquisite perfection in every little thing I do, even …
November 26, 2025
Even as a child I longed and prayed to be a saint. But somehow it always seemed to me as if that …
November 24, 2025
“My yoke is sweet” (Matthew 11. 30). The service of God, the whole-hearted generous service of God, is full of a sweetness …
November 20, 2025