In an age that is becoming increasingly secular, spiritual directors must face the question of how to relate to people who neither think nor speak in terms that we typically associate with religious experience, or in categories that have been used historically to understand and communicate spiritual phenomena. By Richard Boileau and Stéfan Thériault
New Explorations in Spiritual Practice with Aelred Graham
When I woke up this morning, darkness had vanished, relinquishing its hold at the sight of an amazing sunrise. The junko and the cardinal danced around a pile of sunflower seeds that I’d placed on a table last night. Last night, I counted my blessings, but also my disappointments. Last night, my wife and I…
During the hours and days that followed the attack on the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, people around the world were suddenly Parisian, resolutely defying forces that would have humanity cower in fear and descend into chaos so that extremists might impose their misguided solution du jour. Suddenly, the whole world professed to be…
Jesus’ entry into the ancient city of Jerusalem, the event that inaugurates what we have come to call Holy Week, takes on particular significance for many people in this time of threatening uncertainty and the anxiety, even anguish, to which it gives rise. The procession, celebrated with palms and jubilation, barely masks a mood of…
Nous entendons souvent ces jours-ci l’expression “retourner à la normale.” J’avoue l’avoir utilisée moi-même. Cette expression fait preuve d’angoisse par rapport à ce que l’on vit actuellement. Un fléau, un mal subit. Le virus nous effraie. En même temps les moyens que nous prenons pour l’éviter chamboule tout. Notre travail, nos loisirs, nos relations, notre…
Greetings from Malawi… I want to thank you and your friends for the donation sent to us in January 2019. Let me give you some news about Delia Kindergarten and our little ones. We had 63 children at the Kindergarten this year, and among them, 23 orphans and vulnerable children. Most of these orphans and…
An in-depth interview with Vikotr Frankl about meaning on the CBC program Man Alive, 1979.
Our earthly quest for meaning, of which so much is written nowadays, is ultimately a search for the divine source. This article originally appeared in The Way, January 2019 Download the PDF file . Click here to watch an in-depth interview with Vikotr Frankl about meaning on the CBC program Man Alive, 1979.
