The Sacred Heart in Margaret’s Kitchen
A Family Story My Irish grandmother’s Christian name was Margaret Mary. As one might expect, a framed picture of the Sacred Heart figured prominently in...
Letter to a Soul Suffering from Scrupulosity
Just the other day someone suffering from scrupulosity wrote me, asking for counsel. Reading through the Letters of Saint John of Avila, our new Doctor...
Counsels of Saint John of Avila
The Quest for a Spiritual Father It often happens that souls will lament their failure to find a spiritual father or, more often than not,...
I pay all my debts from Christ’s merits
When you place yourself in God’s presence, endeavour rather to listen to Him, than to speak to Him, and strive more to love Him, than...
I went astray and still I remembered Thee
This is a most unusual depiction of Saint Augustine washing the feet of Christ. A friar named Strozzi painted it in 1629. Augustine, wearing an...