“Prayer takes a firm and steadfast hold when a small fire begins to burn in the heart. Try not to quench this fire, and it will become established in such a way that the prayer life repeats itself: and then you will have within you a small murmuring stream.” Fr. Henry Nouwen St. Paul often…
Spiritual formation, I have come to believe, is not about steps or stages on the way to perfection. It’s about the movements from the mind to the heart through prayer in it’s many forms that reunite us with God, each other, and our truest selves. Fr. Henry Nouwen. What are the many forms of prayer…
To live spiritually, we seek to breathe with the Spirit’s rhythm and move in a God-ward direction on the long walk of faith. Fr. Hendry Nouwen. We wake up in the morning and move towards something better than yesterday. If not, we have a problem. The problem for a lot of people is to live…
