Fr. Kevin O’Brien, SJ, encourages individuals who feel lonely to try converting loneliness to solitude. He says, “You might find in those times of solitude resources you have not realized yet that are deep within you and ways of...

The Ball of Red String by Marlene Halpin, O.P., is a classic guided meditation for children that takes little ones on an imaginative journey to a quiet place where they meet Jesus. The book is out in a new...

A family member recently remarked to me that now that New Year’s celebrations are over, and both Christmas and seasonal fall activities are over, it’s harder to imagine getting back to the daily routine. Here in the northeast it...

I strive for distractions-free prayer spaces, and I was sure the stateroom balcony on our once-in-a-lifetime cruise would be such a place. A monotonous horizon of water stretched in every direction. I had nowhere to be, no agenda, and...

Ignatius’s worldview did not include an awareness of social sin. He did not identify the unjust structures of society as embodiments of sin, nor did he think of sin in communal or relational terms. Ignatius’s understanding of sin would...

In an episode of Pop-Up Prayer, Fr. Brice Higginbotham shares thoughts about listening for God’s voice in the silence and predisposing ourselves to prayer. Fr. Higginbotham is the author of Remaining with Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of John.

The start of a new year is inevitably a moment of transition. And transitions can be challenging. Excitement for the new collides with nostalgia for what’s already gone. Possibility and potential meet with regret and missed opportunity. A sense of...

In January 2023, the Lord invited me to hope. At the time, I faced a long journey ahead of rebuilding myself, body and soul, so I was a little afraid to hope. I did not want to be surprised...

As we begin a new year, I pray, as I do every year, for God to reveal to me something he’d like me to meditate on in the coming year. What does God want me to learn? And where...

Rather than compose elaborate resolutions for the year to come, simply do, in some small way, what you intend to do all year: Say “Thank you” to at least one person. Make one healthy choice about your body—food or...