Today we celebrated the great Feast of the Transfiguration. I was blessed to have professed my solemn vows on this day in 2005 ... all the more significant in light of what Pope John Paul II wrote in Vita Consecrata, interpreting consecrated life via the icon of the Transfiguration. He wrote: "... those who [...]
In the Way of Perfection, St. Teresa exhorts her nuns to have "great and very determined resolution" ... and "not [to] be frightened ... by the many things you need to consider in order to begin this divine journey which is the royal road to heaven" (21.1). One should persevere "to the end, come what may, [...]
I'm finally beginning this blog, however modest, to offer some occasional reflections on theDiscalced Carmelite vocation and spirituality within the Church. I offer these thoughts (and at times articles and links) as my own, with the hope that they may be helpful to others who seek God. As vocation director of the Washington Province (U.S.A.) of [...]