Tag Archive for ‘conversion’
A School for Prayer (7)
The Way of the Desert (1) The Four Imperatives By Fr Craig Larkin sm, 1943 – 2015 The Abbas and prayer The monks went into the Desert in order to find God, to fight the demons and to pray. But the Abbas were very reticent and discrete about their own inner life. There are very […]
Tuesday 17 October
ST IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH Romans 1:16-25; Psalm 19; Luke 11:37-41 Heart-fulness Our conversion to Jesus Christ happens in our heart. There is no room for duplicity, living apparently as Catholic but having our hearts enclosed within ourselves. St Ignatius of Antioch is one of our giants in knowing this, his heart was for Jesus and […]
A School for Prayer (4)
The Way of Beginnings By Fr Craig Larkin sm, 1943 – 2015 From the Church Fathers The Fathers of the Church have left us some descriptions of how Christians prayed in the first centuries of the Church. St John Chrysostom: all take it for granted that every Christian would pray night and morning Clement of […]
Thursday 27 July
Exodus 19:1–2,9–11,16–20; Dan 3:52-56; Matthew 13:10–17 Speaking in parables To the disciples ‘it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven.’ They have responded to this gift given them by God. Faith is a gift. As yet, the eager crowd are not at that point, explains Jesus, so to them he […]
Monday 27 March
Isaiah 65:17-21; Psalm 30; John 4:43-54 Receiving and sharing the gift of faith The royal official sought Jesus in his desperate need. He experienced Christ’s power and his love. He then shared that experience with ‘all his household,’ and they all became ‘believers.’ Such is the personal conversion and evangelisation process, the process through which […]
Wednesday 25 January
THE CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL Acts 22:3-16; Psalm 116:1-2; Mark 16:15-18 Listening to God Most of us will not experience a conversion as dramatic as St Paul’s but nevertheless there is much we have in common with him. We, too, need to acknowledge that our lives are not always what they should be. We need […]
Saturday 27 August
St Monica 1 Corinthians 1:26-31; Ps 33; Matthew 25:14-30 Wisdom, virtue, holiness, freedom The call of each of us to faith is due to the merciful goodness of God, not the works that anyone may do. We become part of the Mystical Body of Christ – “made members of Christ Jesus” – and have the […]
Tuesday 21 June
St. Aloysius Gonzaga, RELIGIOUS 2 Kings 19:9-11, 14-21, 31-36; Ps. 48; Matthew 7:6, 12-14 Lord have mercy The Assyrians besiege Jerusalem. King Hezekiah of Judah prays to God to save Judah. God hears his humble and desperate prayer. The prophet Isaiah tells the king the city will be spared and the Assyrians will be defeated. […]
Catholic Discipleship College
Here at the Catholic Discipleship College we are delighted to have another group of wonderful students for 2016, all seeking to grow deeper in their relationship with Christ. Each day our students receive a rich array of spiritual foods, starting with the praying of psalms in Morning Prayer, silent time in front of the Blessed […]
Saturday 28 May
Jude 17:20-25, Ps 63, Mark 11:27-33 Only in you We have a deep longing for God. Only in solitary contemplation will we discover both who we are and who God is. The Hound of Heaven poem introduced as College retreat material fascinated me. Later I read that it led Dorothy Day to Catholicism. She said […]
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