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• Introduction
• RETREAT CENTRE
• Facebook Page
• Gospel Commentary
• Lectio Divina
• Between Ourselves
  • 2026
    • Deadly Poison
    • Secrets
    • Karma
    • Perfection
    • alone with the Alone
    • Prayer
    • Giving and receiving
    • Language
    • Apparitions
  • 2025
    • Conscience
    • Helping
    • Scripture verses
    • The law of freedom
    • Stay free
    • Pets in heaven
    • Died for us
    • Are you good?
    • Monastery
    • Spiritual Path
    • The Good
    • Divinity of Christ
  • 2024
    • The Tallaght cross
    • Escaping from oneself
    • Love your enemies?
    • Old time religion
    • Who am I?
    • Rosary
    • Tidiness
    • Personality
    • Philosophy
    • You are here
    • Rules
  • 2023
    • Normality
    • Aggression
    • Spiritual nourishment
    • Grace
    • Has faith a future?
    • The Forest
    • Selfie
    • The Earth
    • The ego
    • Self-forgiveness
    • Cynicism
    • Haiku
  • 2022
    • Mindfulness
    • Laughter
    • The Past
    • Being there
    • Merit
    • Origin if evil
    • Laziness
    • Guilt
    • The Past
    • Getting Away
    • Loving God
    • Justified by law?
  • 2021
    • Forced Feelings
    • Nature-Worship
    • Trash
    • Orthodoxy
    • Problematic past
    • Meditation
    • Lazy Meditation
    • Abstraction
    • Covid Slump
    • Meditation
    • Covid-19
    • Has God abandoned us?
  • 2020
    • Covid
    • A Prayer of two words
    • God far or near
    • Ego and real self
    • God Again
    • God
    • Prayer
    • Distant God
    • Understanding oneself
    • Judging
    • Questions
    • Isolation
  • 2019
    • Experience
    • Comparing
    • Breathing
    • Restless activity
    • Cranky temperament
    • Distant God
    • Zen
    • Clutter
    • Fear
    • Warlocks and Witches
    • Going to Mass
    • Anything New?
  • 2018
    • Miracles
    • The Mind
    • Change
    • Home
    • Imagination
    • Joy
    • Tradition
    • Trapped
    • Doing Good
    • Time Past
    • Words, words, words
    • Love and Hate
  • 2017
    • Growing Old
    • Meditation practical?
    • Mindfulness
    • Depth
    • The observer
    • Impassibility
    • Joy
    • The Next Life
    • Christian Meditation
    • Suffering
    • Is God playing games?
    • boredom
  • 2016
    • God
    • Indulgences
    • Confession
    • Eucharist
    • Group ego
    • Spiritual Blindness
    • Secularism, relativism
    • Depth
    • Fear of the future
    • Feeling wrecked
    • Loving God
    • Here and Now
  • 2015
    • Fear of God
    • Where is the ego?
    • Atheist or agnostic?
    • The word 'religion'
    • Rational Religion
    • Mass Again
    • Mass
    • Culture Wars
    • Equality
    • Bereavement
    • Ordinary Life
    • Boredom
  • 2014
    • Energy of Passions
    • Hurt Feelings
    • Arguing Religion
    • "I myself personally"
    • Rules and Regulations
    • God needs praise?
    • Intelligence
    • Is life fair?
    • Isolation
    • Why Meditation?
    • God or me?
    • Trinity
  • 2013
    • Arid Meditation
    • Negativity
    • Answer / Response
    • Corporate responsibility
    • God
    • Are We Free?
    • Religion: bad philosophy
    • Praying
    • New Missal
    • Atheism Again
    • Atheism
    • Understanding Liturgy
  • 2012
    • Blaming God
    • Other Religions
    • Spiritual Messages
    • Talking to oneself
    • Ego and the Gospel
    • God's existence
    • Unique Vocation
    • Finishing things
    • Miracles
    • The Unknown Future
    • Pornography
    • The Rosary
  • 2011
    • Physical Beauty
    • Living in the Now
    • The Church now
    • Personality
    • Meditation
    • Stinginess
    • Latin in the Liturgy
    • Busy Life
    • Stepson
    • Messy Meditation
    • Virtue
    • Home
  • 2010
    • Spiritual Progress
    • God's Forgiveness
    • Zen
    • Fear for The Future
    • God the Father
    • Fear for the future
    • Unconditional Love
    • Meister Eckhart
    • Control Freaks
    • Meditation
    • Change
    • The Human Soul
  • 2009
    • Catholic New Age
    • Disillusionment
    • Natural Causes?
    • The Ego
    • Meditation: Christian or Buddhist?
    • Is wealth something to be avoided?
    • Look at the shadows
    • Trinity and Spirituality
    • Prayer of Petition
    • Darwin
    • Crisis
    • Meditation
  • 2008
    • Thanking God
    • Marriage Crisis
    • Too much Humility
    • J. Krishnamurti
    • Humility
    • Is Ego such a bad thing?
    • Transcendence and Immanence
    • The big blancmange
    • Searching for God
    • Stages of Growth
    • God and emptiness
    • Mistakes
  • 2007
    • Love
    • Simple
    • Motives
    • Failure
    • Silence of the heart
    • How to Meditate
    • Pottery retreats
    • Judging Others
    • Taking small steps
    • Absence/Presence of God
    • Forgiving Oneself
  • 2006
    • Scholasticism
    • Fear
    • Love
    • Study of Theology
    • Bad Spiritual State
    • Mantra
    • Meditation
    • Happiness
    • Anger
    • Public Speaking
    • The Eucharist
    • Pursuit of happiness
  • 2005
    • God Loves You
    • Catechism
    • Anxiety
    • Difficult Member
    • Hesitation
    • Reform of Morals
    • Does God keep his promises
    • Prayer of Petition
    • Baptisim
    • My Search
    • The Search for Meaning
    • God and evil
  • 2004
    • Boring Religion
    • Prayer
    • Celibacy
    • Ways of Praying
    • Creation
    • Control Freak
    • Suffering
    • The Passion Of Christ
    • Meditation
    • Fading Church
    • Confrontation
    • Boredom
  • 2003
    • On Loving
    • Vocation
    • Narcotics
    • Inside/Outside
    • The Next Life
    • Sin
    • Spiritual Direction
    • Celibacy
    • Which Jesus?
    • The Church changing
    • Document on New Age
    • Praising God
  • 2002
    • Faith
    • Body/Mind/Spirit
    • The meaning of life?
    • Punishment for our sins
    • Aeging
    • Caring
    • Stopping violence
    • Indecision
    • Unique Call
    • Belief in Hindu/Buddhist Definition of God
    • Praying
    • Child Sexual abuse
  • 2001
    • Confession
    • Worrying about the past
    • Meditation
    • Interconnectedness
    • Bereavement
    • Finding Peace
    • Longing for good news
    • Eastern Spirituality
    • Necessity of Suffering
    • Clarity of Gospel
    • Taize
    • The Eucharist
  • 2000
    • Growing up
    • The purpose of Life?
    • Spirituality
    • A world of changing values
    • Falling out of love
    • Taxes
    • The need for space
    • Financial disaster
    • The existence of God
    • Problems of Institutions
    • Christian hope and the Church
    • Clerical Gentlemen
• Wisdom Line
  • 2026
    • CHARLES DE FOUCAULT
    • BROTHER LAWRENCE
    • RICHARD OF ST VICTOR (+1173)
    • ST COLUMBANUS (c. 543–615)
    • BASIL OF CAESAREA
    • ST ELIZABETH OF THE TRINITY
    • THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA
    • ST PHILIP NERI
  • 2025
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN [x]
    • St TERESA OF AVILA (vi)
    • CLOUD OF UNKNOWING
    • ST BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (iii)
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN [x]
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN [ix]
    • St VINCENT de PAUL
    • ST ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA (ii)
    • ST AELRED OF RIEVAULX (iii)
    • ST AELRED OF RIEVAULX (ii)
    • ST AELRED OF RIEVAULX
    • St Basil the Great & St Gregory Nazianzen
  • 2024
    • St John Cassian (ix)
    • St John Cassian (viii)
    • St John Cassian (vii)
    • St John Cassian (vi)
    • St John Cassian (v)
    • St Peter Chrysologus
    • St Irenaeus of Lyons
    • John Scotus Eriugena
    • Jakob Boehme
    • JEAN-PIERRE DE CAUSSADE
    • ST GREGORY NAZIANZEN (ii)
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN (vix)
  • 2023
    • ST JOHN DAMASCENE (c. 675 - 749)
    • POPE LEO THE GREAT (c. 400-461 AD)
    • IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH (viii)
    • ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (ii)
    • St Augustine (354 AD - 430) (ix)
    • ST BENEDICT (480–547 AD)
    • IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH (vii)
    • Johann Tauler (xv)
    • ST CATHERINE OF SIENA (ii)
    • St PATRICK
    • ST POLYCARP OF SMYRNA
    • St THOMAS AQUINAS (1225 - 1274)
  • 2022
    • ST JOHN OF THE CROSS (1542 - 1591)
    • Meister Eckhart (x)
    • ST THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX
    • ST Gregory The Great
    • ST Dominic
    • ST BONAVENTURE (ii)
    • ST IRENAEUS OF LYONS
    • ST ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA (c. 296–373)
    • ST CATHERINE OF SIENA
    • ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
    • St TERESA OF AVILA (v)
    • ST THOMAS AQUINAS
  • 2021
    • St TERESA OF AVILA (iv)
    • Canticle of Daniel
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN (viii)
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN (vii)
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN (vi)
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN (v)
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN (iv)
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN (iii)
    • St Augustine (354 AD – 430) (Viii)
    • Jelaluddin Rumi (xi)
    • Johann Tauler (xiv)
    • Thomas Merton (xiv)
  • 2020
    • JOHN DAMASCENE (ii)
    • Jelaluddin Rumi (x)
    • Johann Tauler (xiii)
    • Jelaluddin Rumi (ix)
    • Jelaluddin Rumi (viii)
    • Jelaluddin Rumi (vii)
    • St TERESA OF AVILA (iii)
    • ST CATHERINE OF SIENA (iii)
    • ST CATHERINE OF SIENA (ii)
    • Jelaluddin Rumi (vi)
    • Johann Tauler (xii)
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN (ii)
  • 2019
    • JOHN CASSIAN (iv)
    • JOHN CASSIAN (iii)
    • JOHN CASSIAN (ii)
    • JOHN CASSIAN (i)
    • Clement of Rome | JELALUDDIN RUMI
    • GREGORY OF NYSSA
    • IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
    • IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
    • IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH | JELALUDDIN RUMI
    • IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH | JELALUDDIN RUMI
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN
  • 2018
    • SYMEON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN, ST AUGUSTINE
    • FRANÇOIS FÉNELON (xv), RUMI, Suso
    • FRANÇOIS FÉNELON (xv), RUMI
    • FRANÇOIS FÉNELON (xiv)
    • FRANÇOIS FÉNELON (xiii)
    • FRANÇOIS FÉNELON (xii)
    • Julian of Norwich (x)
    • St Bernard of Clairvaux (ii)
    • FRANÇOIS FÉNELON (xi) & Meister Eckhart (ix)
    • FRANÇOIS FÉNELON (x)
    • St JOHN OF THE CROSS
    • FRANÇOIS FÉNELON (ix)
  • 2017
    • JEANNE-MARIE GUYON
    • Henry Vaughan
    • T.M. Taylor
    • Erskine of Linlathen
    • GEORGE MACDONALD
    • Thomas Merton (xii)
    • Sir Arthur Eddington
    • Thomas Merton (xiii)
    • Paul Evdokimov
    • Gerald Vann OP(ii)
    • Johann Tauler (xi)
    • Gerald Vann OP
  • 2016
    • Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    • Patrick Kavanagh
    • Martin Buber
    • Tauler/Rumi
    • William Temple
    • ALBERT SCHWEITZER
    • LEO TOLSTOY
    • Jelaluddin Rumi (v)
    • Blaise Paschal
    • Johann Tauler (x)
    • Karl Barth
    • St Athanasius (ii)
  • 2015
    • Francois Fenelon (viii)
    • HENRI NOUWEN (viii)
    • Baron von Hügel
    • Johann Tauler (ix)
    • HENRI NOUWEN (vii)
    • HENRI NOUWEN (vi)
    • HENRI NOUWEN (v)
    • Desert Fathers and Mothers(iv)
    • ORIGEN (c. 184 - c. 253) (vi)
    • ORIGEN (c. 184 - c. 253) (v)
    • ORIGEN (c. 184 - c. 253) (iv)
    • ORIGEN (c. 184 - c. 253) (iii)
  • 2014
    • ORIGEN (c. 184 - c. 253) (ii)
    • Rabbi Friedman
    • ORIGEN (c. 184 - c. 253) On Prayer
    • Meister Eckhart (ix)
    • Jelaluddin Rumi (iv)
    • Jelaluddin Rumi (iii)
    • Thomas Merton (xii)
    • Thomas Merton (xi)
    • RABBI HESCHEL (iii)
    • RABBI HESCHEL (ii)
    • St Bernard of Clairvaux (iii)
    • Pope Francis
  • 2013
    • ST THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX
    • The Cloud of Unknowing (ix)
    • St Francis of Assisi (ii)
    • Meister Eckhart (viii)
    • THE WAY OF CHUANG TZU (ii)
    • THE WAY OF CHUANG TZU
    • RABBI HESCHEL
    • RABBI ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
    • The Cloud of Unknowing (viii)
    • Desert Fathers and Mothers(iii)
    • Francois Fenelon (vii)
    • Francois Fenelon (vi)
  • 2012
    • Mde Guyon (iv)
    • John Main, OSB (ii)
    • Francois Fenelon (v)
    • Meister Eckhart (vii)
    • Meister Eckhart (vii)
    • Francois Fenelon (iv)
    • HILDEGARD OF BINGEN (ii)
    • HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
    • CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK (ii)
    • Hafiz
    • Henri Nouwen (iv)
    • Henri Nouwen (iii)
    • St Augustine (vii)
  • 2011
    • St Augustine (vi)
    • St Augustine (v)
    • Thomas Merton (x)
    • Evdokimov(ii)
    • Desert Fathers and Mothers(ii)
    • Rainer Maria Rilke (ii)
    • The Cloud of Unknowing (vii)
    • The Cloud of Unknowing (vi)
    • The Cloud of Unknowing (v)
    • Thomas Merton(ix)
    • Julian of Norwich (ix)
    • Julian of Norwich (viii)
  • 2010
    • St John of the Cross
    • Bl. John Henry Newman
    • Meister Eckhart (vii)
    • Julian of Norwich (vii)
    • Julian of Norwich (vi)
    • Julian of Norwich (v)
    • St. Catherine - God Speaking
    • Thomas Traherne
    • Henry Suso(ii)
    • The Cloud of Unknowing (iv)
    • Walter Hilton (c. 1340 - 1396)
    • Meister Eckhart (vi)
  • 2009
    • Thomas Merton (viii)
    • ST JOHN CLIMACUS (ii)
    • ST JOHN CLIMACUS
    • GREGORY OF NYSSA (ii)
    • GREGORY OF NYSSA
    • St Bernard of Clairvaux (ii)
    • Julian of Norwich (iv)
    • St JOHN OF THE CROSS
    • VENANTIUS FORTUNATUS
    • Thomas Merton (viii)
    • St Albert The Great
    • Thomas Merton (vii)
  • 2008
    • The Cloud of Unknowing (iii)
    • Eckhart Tolle (iv)
    • ST THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX
    • The Cloud of Unknowing (ii)
    • BL. HENRY SUSO (iii)
    • BL. HENRY SUSO (ii)
    • Yevgeny Yevtushenko(1933 - )
    • St Francis De Sales
    • Paul Evdokimov (ii)
    • Joko Beck
    • John Damascene
    • Paul Evdokimov
  • 2007
    • St Athanasius
    • Kahlil Gibran (ii)
    • Clement of Rome
    • Thomas Merton (vii)
    • Johann Tauler (viii)
    • Johann Tauler (vii)
    • Johann Tauler (vi)
    • Tertullian
    • Johann Tauler (v)
    • Ignatius of Antioch
    • John Main, OSB
  • 2006
    • (1st-2nd century)
    • Thomas Merton (vii)
    • Eckhart Tolle (iii)
    • John Main OSB
    • Thomas Merton (vi)
    • Thomas Merton (v)
    • Thomas Merton (iv)
    • Vestiges of God
    • Dogen Zenji & Meister Eckhart (vi)
    • St Augustine (iv)
    • St Augustine (iii)
    • St Augustine (ii)
  • 2005
    • St Augustine
    • Rabindranath Tagore
    • Thomas Merton (iii)
    • Francois Fenelon (iii)
    • Thomas Merton (ii)
    • Lao Tzu
    • St. John of the Cross
    • St. Teresa of Avila (ii)
    • Henri Nouwen (2)
    • Henri Nouwen
    • Eckhart Tolle 2
    • Bede Griffiths (iii)
  • 2004
    • Bede Griffiths (ii)
    • Thomas Merton
    • Francois Fenelon (iii)
    • Bede Griffiths
    • Eckhart Tolle
    • William Blake
    • Kahlil Gibran
    • Francois Fenelon - Suffering
    • Francois Fenelon
    • Mde Guyon (iii)
    • Mde Guyon (ii)
    • Mde Guyon
  • 2003
    • St Columba (or Columcille)
    • From the Sufis
    • Rumi (iii) - What Jesus runs away from
    • Desert Fathers & Mothers (iii)
    • Rainer Maria Rilke
    • Meister Eckhart (v) - God the unutterable
    • Chuang Tzu
    • Jelaluddin Rumi (ii)
    • Jelaluddin Rumi
    • Jean-Pierre de Caussade
    • St Francis of Assisi
    • 12 Steps of AA
  • 2002
    • Theodore the Studite
    • Martin Buber (1878-1965)
    • Desert Fathers & Mothers (ii)
    • Desert Fathers & Mothers
    • Sadhu Sundar Singh - Spiritual Joy
    • The Desert Fathers (ii)
    • The Desert Fathers
    • Sadhu Sundar Singh 1922 Stretch out your hand
    • Meister Eckhart- take one way from God
    • Sadhu Sundar Singh 1922
    • Antony of the desert (c.251 - 356 A.D)
    • Amma Syncletica (3rd - 4th Century) - Coming closer to God
  • 2001
    • Julian of Norwich (iii) - Eternal Love
    • Jacob Boehme - Die continually to sin
    • St Bernard of Clairvaux - Love
    • Johann Tauler (iv) - A three fold birth
    • Julian of Norwich - Shewings
    • St Columban - Boat Song
    • St Therese of Lisieux (iii) - The cherished child of the world
    • St Terese of Lisieux (ii) - God's parity of love
    • Johann Tauler (iv) - Our special grace
    • Meister Eckhart (iii) - Forgiveness
    • St Bonaventure - The minds ascent to God
    • The Cloud of unknowing
  • 2000
    • St Terese of Lisieux - Opening St Paul
    • Teresa of Avila - The role of experience
    • St Bernard of Clairvaux - On loving God
    • Jordan of Saxony - A Christmas greeting
    • St Cyprian - The Lords prayer
    • Johann Tauler (iii) - He searchs to find us
    • Henry Suso - Death of the ego
    • Johann Tauler (ii) - Coping with addictions and neuroses
    • Julian of Norwich - Adam's tunic, human nature
    • Johann Tauler- The birth of God in the soul
    • Meister Eckhart (ii) - Abandonment
    • Meister Eckhart - God unknowable
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