De La Mennais Brothers: Making Jesus Christ better known and loved by young people

Here’s a recent devotional from Liz Milani (The Practice Co devotional app - https://www.thepracticeco.com) on the theme of inner peace and fulfilment, making use of the famous prayer by St. Teresa of Avila which is one of my favourites.   The Apostle Paul wrote to his friends and said: "Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins..."* Like me, maybe you've heard this screamed from pulpits and social media platforms like a battle cry, a condemnation, a strike on your record or on that of others. But that's not what it is at all. It's the simple reminder of what's important. Wake up. Wake up. Friend, wake up. Life is happening all around you, and while you will be asleep to some of what is going on, if you live with an open heart and open hands and open eyes, all will be revealed in time - you will wake up, and you will continue to wake up your whole life long. You will experience a million tiny revelations that will collectively and continuously ...

  Another great devotional from Liz Milani (The Practice Co devotional app - https://www.thepracticeco.com) on the theme of gratitude in a time of trial. I made a note of this post when first reading it back in April. It's sentiments still very much apply today.         HOW TO SEE IN THE DARK - Part 7 When you feel like you can't see the way forward, or that your current experiences are murking up the water making it hard to make decisions and to know what to do, gratitude will clear the way, it will open your eyes, it will help you see in the dark. And these are dark times. Whether its COVID-19, job and income loss, a sense of hopelessness, relationship heartache, chronic pain, anger, frustration... whatever it is that is clouding your judgement, tightening your heart - sometimes the way forward is hard to see for all the mess and clamour of life. There is so much happening on so many different levels, it's natural and easy to feel overwhelmed and ...

I've been storing up draft blog posts for a while without getting round to editing and publishing them. I feel quite guilty about that, actually. So, apologies for what is now going to be a slew of posts appearing in the next day or two. Thanks Sr. Silvana for the kick up the derrière!! Here's the Liz Milani devotional that I wanted to share on the topic of loving oneself as well as others. Lots of sound spiritual wisdom here. I'm not sure which is more challenging, loving yourself or loving others. Loving your Self often gets labelled as conceited, or arrogant, or self-indulgent. Then there's the idea running around that your Self is wicked and not to be trusted, and how could you possibly love your Self that needs saving from itself? (we'll talk about this in a series to come, but for now, I'll say this: The Christ doesn't save you FROM yourself or from hell; The Christ saves you TO yourself which is a heavenly place to live from.) Loving others is fra...