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This week I received a letter from Marianne Grosspietsch, whom I have written about before, and who founded an orphanage named Shanti among the poor
In this DM, I wish to talk about Joy. Why talk about Joy? Because joy is why we are here—at least in St. Thomas Aquinas’s
I want to bring attention to the readers of these Daily Meditations that a tragedy has befallen my friend, and a friend of many of
I lived in the United States for about 20 years. On my encounter with America I did not realize immediately how deep is the intertwining
Working on Merton and the four paths of Creation Spirituality during the whole week, I realized in a new way how accomplished he was. While
“To each of us there is a point of nowhereness in the middle of movement, a point of nothingness in the midst of being: the
“Contemplation is the highest expression of man’s intellectual and spiritual life. It is that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it is
Acedia means essentially lack of interest and absence of passion. It is not the same as the sin of omission, which is the lack of
Stories about people who acted for the good of the whole in peculiarly difficult circumstances, even to the extreme sacrifice, are important for us. They
Today is Good Friday, a day to meditate on evil and sacrifice and the price good people pay for following their conscience and having one,
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