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• Catholic Contemplative Life – A journey of recovery within Christ and His Church

  A restraint removed, crossing a threshold, oblivious, The surrender of will, returning a gift to the Creator, That which is granted is given back, troubled, unaware, Prodigal soul perceiving the ev...

• Origin: Why Faith, Hope, and Charity? – Catholic Contemplative Life

  Origin: Why Faith, Hope, and Charity? …the soul is not united with God in this life through understanding, or through enjoyment, or through imagination, or through any other sense; but only faith, hop...

• The Portal of the Mystery of Hope – Catholic Contemplative Life

  Faith doesnt surprise me. I am so resplendent in my creation. . . . That in order really not to see me these poor people would have to be blind. Charity says God, that doesnt surprise me. Its not surp...

• St John of the Cross – Catholic Contemplative Life

  A genuine spirit seeks rather the distasteful in God than the delectable, leans more toward suffering than toward consolation, more toward going without everything for God than toward possession, and ...

• Facing what you fear – Catholic Contemplative Life

  Facing what you fear From Mount Hor the children of Israel set out on the Red Sea road, to bypass the land of Edom. But with their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained against God ...

• THE AVOIDANCE OF SIN – Catholic Contemplative Life

  THE AVOIDANCE OF SIN “The life of man upon earth is a warfare” (Job. vii, i). Day and night, within and without, the enemies of our salvation lie in wait to rob us of our treasure of virtues, even of...