Voyages of Personal Discovery
A Navigating Review from the Irish Catholic Thursday, 10 January 2013 – If you find this review helpful, please “Like” on Facebook or forward to a friend! Released towards the end of last year,...
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Dear Friends – While we are about at the halfway point of reading and discussing the Imitation of Christ via the able guidance of our own Vicki Burbach, I wanted to give you a heads-up so you have time...
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The Imitation of Christ (Conclusion) So we’ve reached the end of one of the most-read devotional books of all-time. Has it changed your life? It’s certainly had an impact here. Before we began reading,...
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Without exception, the teachings of the saints and spiritual doctors of the Church agree: spiritual direction is among the most powerful tools to help us in the battle. Do you know any wise doctors who...
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Spiritual Reading As part of any spiritual growth program, the seeker must be prepared to focus energies toward the preeminent goal of dynamic union with Christ. One critical aspect of this journey...
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Dear CSD Family, I received word today that my book, Navigating the Interior Life – Spiritual Direction and the Journey to God won the 2013 About.com Catholicism Reader’s Choice award for best Catholic...
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Mother Mary Many persons delude themselves maintaining that they reach union with God without having continuous recourse to our Lord who is the way, the truth, and the life. Another error would consist...
View ArticleReport from Mundelein Seminary and the Institute for Religious Life
Dear CSD Family, My time with the religious and lay faithful at the Institute for Religious Life at Mundelein Seminary this past week was an absolute joy. I was moved to be able to bless the attendees...
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Exterior Piety vs. Interior Joy Millions stand within just a few feet of the grace necessary to ascend to the heights of heaven in this life (with limitations, of course) and to meet the smile of God...
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Dear CSD Family, We are grateful to announce that Navigating the Interior Life is now available in a downloadable audio format! Greg Willits did a fantastic job helping Emmaus Road make Navigating...
View ArticleSpiritual Gift Pack from Emmaus Press
Emmaus Press has put together a spiritual gift pack especially designed for the readers of Catholic Spiritual Direction. Here are the details: Deeper than the discount you’ll enjoy on this offer is the...
View ArticleLonging for the Face of God-Navigating the Interior Life-I of IV
As the Leadership Conference of Women Religious continues to demonstrate that they are without mooring in the heart of Christ and the Church, it is important to continue to reorient ourselves to the...
View ArticleLonging for the Face of God – Navigating the Interior Life (Part II of IV)
In our last post we introduced the concept of the three ways. In this post and those following we will explore general descriptions of each phase with help from a classic in Catholic spiritual...
View ArticleLonging for the Face of God-Navigating the Interior Life(Part IV of IV)
In our first post of this series we covered an introduction to the concept of the three ways of the interior life. In part II and part III we covered the first and second of the three ways. In this...
View ArticleAridity – Navigating the Interior Life Spiritual Dictionary
ARIDITY: The state of a soul devoid of sensible consolation, which makes it very difficult to pray. It may be caused by something physical, such as illness, or voluntary self-indulgence, or an act of...
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ATTACHMENT: An emotional dependence, either of one person on another, or of a person on some real or illusory object. Attachments play an important role in spiritual development, since the first...
View ArticleAscetical Theology – Navigating the Interior Life Spiritual Dictionary
ASCETICAL THEOLOGY: The science of the saints based on a study of their lives. It is aimed to make people holy by explaining what sanctity is and how to attain it. It is the science of leading souls...
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APPETITES – DISORDERED: Inordinate and willful desires of created things or circumstances not rightly ordered to moral or spiritual good that impede union with God and darken, defile, weaken, and...
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INTENTION: An act of the will tending effectively to some good, proposed by the mind as desirable and attainable. It differs from simply willing, which is the desire for an end without concern about...
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DISPOSITION: A quality or condition of a person necessary for the performance of some action. Commonly applied to the conditions required for the valid reception or administration of the sacraments, as...
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