What is virtue? How do we get it? What is the connection between virtue and the spiritual life?

Let’s dive in.

Our first and second book study sessions exploring The Devil in the Castle were rich with insight and honesty. If you weren’t able to join us, here are a few takeaways.

So, what kind of rest does Jesus invite us to in Matthew 11:28 when He says, “...I will give you rest,”?

It was before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament that each movement of the Communio retreat unfolded before me.

How do you prepare for the arrival of Jesus, keeping Him at the heart of your joyful anticipation, without jumping the gun?

Pope St. JPll said, "A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use."

Whenever I am annoyed or find a certain dislike in a person, I ask myself “what is it about him/her that made him/her so loved by God?”

I have always thought that theology was such a lofty word, a lofty idea, belonging to academics and intellectuals. But, I was wrong. Theology is for all Christians like the quote from James above, “be doers not just hearers” or studiers.

I learned fully how our suffering isn’t new, but can and should be redemptive, if we allow God to work in and through it.

He wanted to heal everything He could for me with the promise to be made whole with Him in Heaven. I finally understood and saw the hope for what was always meant to be and would be again.

Our mutual acceptance of one another by allowing one another to experience this deep grief in a way ordered to our individual genius…feminine and masculine, was a healing balm in each of us.