Living Grace

Catholics have always considered Holy Week the most sacred time of the year. I must confess that I never understood the reason for calling it holy. After all, Jesus was abandoned by his closest disciples, betrayed, falsely accused as a threat to the Roman Empire,...

Ultimately, the spiritual life is radically simple. It is all about being emptied of the psychological and spiritual debris, or karmic tendencies, that we have accumulated over lifetimes so that we become entirely transparent to God and our own souls. Then, God's...

Monday: I see imperfection all around me and within me. If spirituality cannot teach us how to find God within all our messiness, what value does it really have?Tuesday:  We now live in a culture that so exults self-affirming feelings that we have lost...

Living the spiritual life in an honest manner is walking a razor's edge of sorts. On one side is pure humility which leads us to admit our complete powerlessness and  dependency on God. The other edge is our God-given power to author our lives according to our most...

Francis told us that God is good, but he did not specifically mention that God’s goodness is also absolutely terrifying. For this reason, we shield our eyes from goodness. Too much goodness would undo our lives! Francis was the son of a wealthy merchant, living a...

Young people are turning away from religion in droves. There are many reasons for this, but chief among them is the fact that modern religions tend to soften the spiritual life, to make it easy so that it offers no significant challenges. We have domesticated God and...