The Desert in Carmelite Spirituality
“What did you go out to the wilderness to see?” (Matthew 11:7) These were Jesus’ words to the...
Read More
Tag: desert
Daily Reflection — God’s Visitation
When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks...
Read More
Daily Reflection — God is Our Refuge
“O Lord, you have been our refuge, from generation to generation; from age to age, you are.”...
Read More
Daily Reflection — Blessed of My Father
“Then the King will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the...
Read More
Daily Reflection — Entering New Life
“For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might...
Read More
A Call to Live in God’s Kingdom
“What is it that you most want right now?” If I were to take a survey, I would probably receive a...
Read More
Daily Reflection — Blessed of My Father
“Then the King will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the...
Read More
The Desert in Carmelite Spirituality
“What did you go out to the wilderness to see?” (Matthew 11:7) These were Jesus’ words to the...
Read MoreFive Lessons from Christ’s time in the Wilderness
In the Gospel of Sunday of the First Week of Lent, we are given a lesson of what it takes for us to attain salvation through the saving work of Jesus Christ. “Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus returned from the Jordan and was...
Read MoreDaily Lenten Reflection — Into the Wilderness
“The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him” (Mark 1:12-13). As we begin our Lenten...
Read MoreUnderstanding Christ’s Temptation
After John the Baptist baptized Jesus, the Christ was called into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit where He humbled Himself so profoundly that in the company of wild beasts and beleaguered by ravenous hunger after a forty day...
Read MoreDaily Lenten Reflection — Let’s Begin
“The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him” (Mark 1:12-13). As we begin this Lenten...
Read More
