Crisis management and best business practices have their uses, but they cannot replace true Catholic leadership.
Prayer
Posted inExamen, Faith
The Examen with Fr. James Martin, S.J.: When you can’t explain prayer
When it comes to prayer, just because you can’t explain it doesn’t mean that it’s not real.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope calls on Catholics to pray “to protect the church from the devil”
The pope’s appeal to Catholics comes at a moment of great turbulence in his five-year pontificate.
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The Examen with Fr. James Martin, S.J.: Images in prayer
God sometimes offers you an image in prayer when you most need it.
Posted inFaith, The Word
How do we listen to Jesus’ call?
Only a life spent pursuing the love of God will leave something that survives the encounter with death.
Posted inFaith, The Word
What is God’s covenant for you?
God’s dream for humanity is bigger than the social realities of the day.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Jesus never gave up the innocence of childhood. Neither should we.
If innocence cannot find a home in your heart, love will never conquer the world.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Why do we follow Jesus?
Those who wait on the least will be the ones in whom God will find a reflection of the Son.
Posted inExamen, Faith
James Martin, S.J.: Hearing God in prayer
The experience of intuiting words or phrases that seem to come from God doesn’t happen often, but when it does it’s memorable.
Posted inExamen, Faith
James Martin, S.J.: Understanding desire
One of the most common experiences of prayer is the revelation of desires; the longings that draw you closer to God, and help you become the person God means for you to be.