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by bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | Asceticism, Books, contemplation, Features, Fr Donald Haggerty, History, Ignatius Press, Mother Teresa, mysticism, News, Prayer, Saint John of the cross, Spirituality | 0 |
The history of the Catholic Church features a number of great spiritual masters, saints, and mystics. Some of the giants of the Church’s rich spiritual and mystical tradition include Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Saint Teresa […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 21, 2021 | Bible, contemplation, Jesus Christ, meditation, News, Prayer, Prayer Life & Liturgy, rest, Sacred Scripture, “Silent Night | 0 |
Image: Image © by Christos Georghiou | Shutterstock For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” (Isaiah 30:15) How is it that we can experi…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 15, 2021 | contemplation, Cross, Daily Quote, News, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saints | 0 |
A Daily Quote to Inspire Your Catholic Faith “Although it is a great grace from God to practise self-examination, yet ‘too much is as bad as too little,’ as they say; believe me, by God’s help, we shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than b…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2021 | contemplation, Dominican Order, Featured, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Dominic | 0 |
“To Praise”: Saint Dominic and the Contemplative Style We will focus soon enough on Saint Dominic as the foundational and ultimate Dominican doer, but this great saint was a first-rate thinker as well. His heart burned with zeal to preach the good news, and he knew that to do so most effectively he needed to […]
by bcadmin | Aug 9, 2021 | 2021, Aristotle, Avery Dulles, Columns, contemplation, Edith Stein, Edmund Husserl, fatalism, Martin Heidegger, News, Pelaginism, Perseid Meteor Shower, Ps. 46:9-11, Robert Royal, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Summer Stillness by Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Robert Royal: We often look at others and ourselves scientifically and not as the strange and wonderfully inexplicable beings that we all are.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 12, 2021 | Art, contemplation, Creative Arts, Featured, In the Spotlight, Living the Faith, Music, News, Prayer, Prayer & Spiritual Life, Robert Cardinal Sarah, silence, Visual Art, Writing | 0 |
“When we work from silence, we teach silence”: Applying Cardinal Sarah’s The Power of Silence to the creative life.
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by bcadmin | Apr 21, 2021 | Best of Week, contemplation, Featured, mysticism, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Catherine of Siena | 0 |
When we contemplate, we set aside a place, either externally in the physical world or interiorly within our minds and hearts, or both, to ponder, observe, and meditate. After Catherine donned the habit of the Mantellate she spent three years in seclusion, except when she went to church for confession and Mass, in the small […]
by bcadmin | Dec 15, 2020 | agape, contemplation, Faith, Featured, freedom, God, human will, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, Love, News, Prayer, Prayer & Spiritual Life, time | 0 |
In this timeless post from the archives, Dr. Peter Kreeft offers sure advice on developing your prayer life. Let’s get very, very basic and very, very practical about prayer. The single most important piece of advice I know about prayer is also the sim…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 13, 2020 | contemplation, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Thomas Merton | 0 |
The next to last chapter of Thomas Merton’s Seeds of Contemplation (1949) is entitled Contemplata aliis Tradere — roughly translated, “To teach others contemplation.” It’s one of the mottos of the Dominican Order, and it’s drawn from Thomas Aquinas’s Summa. “That form of active life in which a man, by preaching and teaching, delivers to others the fruits of his contemplation,” writes St. Thomas, “is more […]
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