Contemplation is the light of God’s love playing directly in the soul. That is all. And there is nothing delicate or nuanced about it. It...

St. Theresa is a classic example of contemplative Christian experience. Her faith was not an abstract objective notion, but a fundamental...

There is no purpose to the contemplative life. There is no so that in the passive contemplative encounter with God. It simply is. It...

Hence I would say...that the contemplative...will not normally be associated too firmly or too definitely with any movement whether...

Nothing new under the sun... Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity. - Ecclesiates 1 Nothing is so onerous to people as to be completely...

St. Peter said, 'We have left all things.' St. James said, 'We have given up all things.' St. John said, 'We have nothing left.' ...

How in the world can a person with a broken leg continue to try and walk and not experience pain? And yet put plainly and simply,...

running aground in the unplumbable water of a foreign sea nothing to salvage only to be washed up at the foot of cold mountain

But we in the West, living in a tradition of stubborn ego-centred practicality and geared entirely for the use and manipulation of...

There is, quite frankly, no way for people who live life based on abstract objective ideas to grasp what contemplation of the classic...

What you think about life really does not matter at all. And it does not matter because what we will to see in the world around us most...

Until quite recently it was widely assumed that the experiences of the first Christians were still accessible and still being played out...

Neither general nor abstract, but particular and concrete. Not enjoyable, not peaceful, but truthful and unsettling. Never suave or...

Everything taught and done by Christ in the Gospels is inherently contemplative. Each of his teachings, all of his actions, everything...

All across North Africa, up north through Palestine, and east out across Syria and into Persia hundreds of thousands of Christians lived...