When I was pregnant with my first child my sister-in-law asked me “what kind of parent do you want to be?” I paused, knowing the answer was going to be uncommon and figuring out how to word the answer I’ve known for years. I said, “I want her life to…
Okay, I’ll be honest. This guy sounds a lot like the last one. I’m on two of I’m-scared-to-count and if this is some foreshadowing of future sections I’m going to have to do some very deep digging and pair it with some real creativity to keep you here. But! Turns…
St. Isaiah the Solitary remarks on Guarding the Intellect in these, his twenty-seven texts. They are not impossible to read but gleaning the nuggets is where I’m staying. Without splitting hairs on context and words I’ll speak to the places these thoughts took me. There is much repetition here for…
It’s advent as I write this. It is a season filled with hope and faith that gets sadly overshadowed by the commercialization of this holiday. The giving inflates and the reasons get moved aside like that last end-piece of the fruitcake at the party. What’s so important about this season…
Recently I read the account of St Ignatius’ St. Paul-like conversion to a Christian way of life. The image conscious and fame seeking man suffered a devastating injury to his legs in battle leaving him rather unable to pull off the trendy tight leggings of the royal courts in that…
I can’t help but think that even though I’ve been raised a good (Roman) Catholic girl, spent a life attending mass regularly, and attempt on a near daily basis to live the life of a Christian I’ve somewhere gone astray. Have we all just answered the question by convention that…
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. This prayer is the roots upon which the Philokalia and Christianity grow. In perhaps the shortest combination of words to do so, it speaks the whole Truth and is all we need to remember (perpetually) as members of the Church.…