If, after baptism, God deems [his children] worthy to remain in this life only for a little while, let them not rest from praying and saying: Be my help, do not desert me (Ps 27:9).

There is arguably no thinker in the past century who brought more attention to victims than René Girard. The French anthropologist based his whole multidisciplinary theory of human behavior on the "victim mechanism."

The experience of waiting will continue to be wrongly understood unless one sees that we are meant to learn from it [and] that the deeper meaning of life is to keep watch.

Father Alfred Delp, S.J. (1907–1945), imprisoned and martyred by the Nazis, wrote a stunning series of spiritual meditations while awaiting his execution.

Prepare thy heart for this thy Spouse, that he may dwell in thee.

The word "noise" in English comes from about the eleventh century, and according to the Oxford English Dictionary, most probably derives from the Latin words nausea (upset, seasickness) or possibly noxia (harmful behavior).

New Year's resolutions are typically an effort in self-control. But what if the best resolutions are those by which we relinquish control?

Our faith does not consist in conquering weakness but in clinging in the midst of suffering to the will of him who suffers out of love for us.

God, I offer you my spiritual aridity and deprivations.

The pure of heart are the blessed ones, Christ tells us, because having rid themselves of every distraction, their eyes remain fixed upon God alone.