Mt 9:36-10:8 Dear Friends, Today we begin Ordinary Time. Having finished our communal celebration of the Pascal Mystery with added celebrations for the Trinity and Eucharist, we now journey with Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. In this special time, the love of God in Christ Crucified and Christ Risen shines before us enlighten the presence of God in our daily experience. We will never discover a more insightful and more inviting expression of God’s loving mercy than in Christ Crucified and Christ Risen. It is our constant invitation to walk in the footsteps of...

Victory For the True SelfThis is the last of eleven reflections on Thomas Merton’s teaching on the True Self/False Self dynamic. This conflictual but enlightening relationship permeates Merton’s huge quantity of writing on the spiritual life. The basic point of the conflict is the individual’s pul...

This is the tenth of eleven reflections on Thomas Merton’s teaching on the True Self/False Self dynamic. This conflictual but enlightening relationship permeates Merton’s huge quantity of writing on the spiritual life. The basic point of the conflict is the individual’s pull toward and away fro...

John 6:51-58 Dear Friends, Today, we celebrate the great gift of Jesus, his flesh and blood in the Eucharist. In this boundless wonder of divine love, we embrace the mystery of the Crucified and Risen Christ. Likewise, we are invited to enter more deeply into the reward of Christian c...

Prayer: Pathway to Personal Renewal This is the ninth of eleven reflections on Thomas Merton’s teaching on the True Self/False Self dynamic. This conflictual but enlightening relationship permeates Merton’s huge quantity of writing on the spiritual life. The basic point of the conflict is the individual’s pull toward and away from God, one’ true and ultimate destiny. Merton’s exposure of the consequences of original sin is ruthless in its intensity. This is the task of the False Self. At the same time, the pull of the True Self, the ever-present call of God’s pers...