Five years ago this very month I took the biggest risk by making what was probably the most important decision of my life. I want to write…… Read more ““I Never Saw You at this School or this Major..””

My first introduction to C.S Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia was nothing short of “Divinely” inspired or rather, God’s will. Of course my official first encounter of it…… Read more ““Come Further up, Come Further in!””

I posted this many months ago, but it is so worth re-sharing. I absolutely love how Our Lord works; the Carmel I came from was known as…… Read more “With What Love He Feeds His Little Dove!”

Almost exactly a year ago a Carmelite priest from France came to preach a retreat to the nuns shortly before my departure. His entire series of lectures…… Read more “The Way of Perfection Leads to the Dawn.”

A few blog posts back I wrote about my experience of walking the “Camino de Santiago” (The Way of Saint James).  However, I had left out the…… Read more “Another Martha and Mary Magdalene.”

A good friend just recently told me that before C.S. Lewis wrote his Chronicles of Narnia he despised fairy tales; he thought they were a great evil…… Read more “How to Defeat the Dragon (Even the Interior One)”

I was inspired this morning by the great Apostle -whose feast we celebrate today- Saint James the Greater, to write about the famous trail he walked in…… Read more “The Summer I Followed Saint James the Greater.”

More than half of the saints in the Catholic Church are comprised of martyrs. That being said,  before I understood the beauty of shedding one’s own blood…… Read more “16 Carmelite Nuns Who Died As Martyrs”

One of my former confessors at Carmel and main chaplain is also an exorcist; he never lost an opportunity to captivate the nuns with such stories or…… Read more ““Waiting IS the Cross””

I am currently reading Hermitage Within by an anonymous monk. The entire first section of the book possesses a handful of chapters on the particular saints and…… Read more “Saint Paul’s Wilderness.”