A Passion Meditation – John Henry Cardinal Newman

Meditation on the Passion – Cardinal Newman (.pdf)

O my own Savior, now in the tomb but soon to arise, you have paid the price; it is done—consummation est—it is secured. Oh, fulfill your Resurrection in us, and as you have purchased us, claim us, take possession of us, make us yours. (John Henry Cardinal Newman)

Lectio Divina

Lectio Divina (.pdf)

Silence and Solitude

Silence and Solitude (.pdf)

One of the most important of the healing qualities of solitude is the opportunity to slow down, to step away, if only momentarily, from what author James Gleick calls the “hurry sickness” of our times.

(James Cleick, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (New York: Pantheon, 1999, p. 277)

St. Francis de Sales

St. Francis de Sales (.pdf)

Fr. Martin Bialas, C.P., states, “The author who had the most decisive influence on the thinking of Paul of the Cross and one whose works Paul read throughout his life was St. Francis de Sales. Hence it is he who is designated here as Paul’s favourite author. Of Francis’ works, Paul favoured The Treatise on the Love of God. This treatise fascinated him the reason being that the infinite love of God was, for Paul, the fundamental principle and end of of his spiritual life. Some of his contemporaties knew of the affinity between him and St. Fancis de Sales, and it was to the “mild bishop of Geneva” that they mostly compared Paul. (cf.. Martin Bialas, The Mysticism of St. Paul of the Cross, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1990, p. 110­.

The Seven Last Words

The Seven Last Words (.pdf)