Perhaps this Advent, which will probably feel a lot more like Lent, I will finally learn that good waiting is a grace, one that hinges on realizing that the arrival does not depend on my vaunted stage-managing powers.
Spirituality
Posted inDispatches, Faith
How L’Arche is providing health (and spiritual) care to people with disabilities amid Covid-19
Coronavirus health restrictions created profound obstacles for the communal relationships and interplay of everyday life at L’Arche communities.
Posted inFaith, Features
This is Your Soul on Mysticism
What Julian of Norwich can teach us about oneness with God.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Why does God allow suffering? A meditation
Why is it this way? It is the child’s most basic question, dealing with the most bewildering thing of all.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Read: Pope Francis on how prayer reveals our common humanity
Pope Francis’ remarks from his general audience on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
2020 felt like a yearlong Advent. But we can still make this season of waiting special—pandemic or not.
Advent couldn’t be more relevant this year. Let’s invite it into our homes, since we’ll all be there.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Waiting for a Covid test is more than just standing in line. It’s an act of mercy.
The line was not immeasurable because it stretched out for over three hours. It was immeasurable because it pointed to hope.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Good (and a bit clichéd) Jesuit wisdom for pandemic spirituality: Just let go.
As churches have opened up all over the country, there has been a particularly powerful and graced “letting go” available for some Catholics.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Whatever brings a person to God is holy—whether you like it or not
Whatever brings a person closer to God is holy.
Posted inFaith, Features
The single life is a sacred vocation—and it’s more fulfilling than our culture leads you to believe.
A willingness to recognize the holiness of the ordinary might be the highest ideal of the solitary life.