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Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Last week, we began a new series with the weekly reflection titled Catholic Understandings of Human Formation . In this reflection, we will explore the “when” of human formation. We have all heard that our “formative years” are so...
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, We are embarking together on a new series of weekly reflections to lay the foundation and build the framework for an authentically Catholic understanding of human formation – and then broadening that foundation and framework to include...
Dear Souls and Hearts members, Journeying together over the past few weeks, we have been exploring the inner psychological factors that fuel our distractions in prayer, impelling our redirection and ultimately undermining our prayer life, causing us to avoid God....
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, In my last weekly reflection, titled Distraction and Prayer: Satan, Symptoms, or Something Else? , I offered you some action items geared toward helping you understand how your distractions in prayer can be a gift. The assignment was...
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, My deepest desire for you is that with all your being, embracing your identity as a beloved child of God and Mary, you engage with the three Persons of the Trinity and our Lady in a deep, intimate, loving relationship. I want you to be...
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, In last week’s reflection, Catholic Being vs. Catholic Doing , I promised to dive more deeply into practical recommendations to help you let go of “doing” and enter into “being.” N.B.: I am focusing primarily on the realm of human...
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, Many of you may be exhausted in the aftermath of all the “doing” in preparation for Christmas Day. The annual marathon of planning, scheduling, shopping, decorating, wrapping gifts, baking cookies, preparing food and drink, facilitating...
Dear Souls and Hearts Members, In last week’s reflection, titled Seeing Your Difficulties Through the Eyes of Providence , we began the journey that the saints take from rejecting the PIECES (the Persons , Institutions, Events, Circumstances, Experiences, and Systems)...