God Blogs

In one of the most dramatic, significant and yet intimate, tender moments of the Gospels, the resurrected Jesus breathes the Holy Spirit onto His gathered disciples: “Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ When he had said this, he breathed on them and […]

Augustine of Hippo (354-430), famously said: “Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.” And Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) added, “I do not seek to understand so that I can believe, but I believe so that I may understand; and what is […]

You already love God. You just may not yet know it. But when you finally encounter God, you will discover love for God already present in you as a gift, which has been waiting to surface and change your life. That will be the time your life with God shall truly begin, for which there […]

PSALM 121: YOUR TRUE HELPER In an emergency, when you need help, sensing that you cannot make it on your own, that you are suddenly not in control of impending events, most all of us turn immediately to God for help. That is why it is said that there are no atheists in fox holes. […]

God has taught me a contemplative form of prayer which I practice every morning, and during brief periods of the day. I call it “Abiding Prayer,” and it is based Jesus’ directing us to: “Abide in me as I abide in you…. Abide in my love” (John 15:4,9). Abiding prayer is less something you do, […]

Sometimes the simplest things can be the most profound. That is definitely the case with the book, The Practice of the Presence of God. It was posthumously compiled of letters and discussions with peers of a humble and unassuming lay brother in a Carmelite monastery in Paris. A disenchanted a young soldier, Nicholas Herman (1614-1691), […]