Being at peace with one’s vocation is a great gift. But this gift is not easy to find.

St. Ignatius suggests three possible intellectual and emotional “times” of one’s life “in any of which a sound and good election can be made.”

We tell people making the online retreat for the first time to “Trust God. Trust yourself. And, trust this process.”

My inner silence returned me to the cathedral, and to the meaning of the priesthood.

Jan. 31, 2015, would have marked the 100th birthday of the American Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton.