This Lent on CarmelCast we're discussing the spiritual classic The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila. In this episode, we continue our discussion of St. Teresa's commentary on the Our Father, particularly her teaching on temptations in prayer.

During this year commemorating the declaration in 1870 of Saint Joseph Patron of the Universal Church many people are revisiting sources of their devotion to the foster father of Jesus. We hear praise for Our Holy Mother Saint Teresa of Jesus for having stirred up practical devotion for Saint Joseph in the “modern” age, that is, in the period of church history that ran between the Middle Ages and our current era.

This Lent on CarmelCast we're discussing the spiritual classic The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila. In this episode, we talk about St. Teresa's method of prayer for those of us who often find it difficult to focus.

This Lent on CarmelCast we're discussing the spiritual classic The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila. In this episode, we talk about how vocal prayer must be joined to mental prayer and how to deal with distractions in prayer.

This Lent on CarmelCast we're discussing the spiritual classic The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila. In this episode, we give an introduction to St. Teresa's understanding of prayer.

This Lent on CarmelCast we're discussing the spiritual classic The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila. In this episode, we talk about St. Teresa's understanding of detachment and humility as foundations for living a life of prayer.

This Lent we'll be discussing the spiritual classic The Way of Perfection by St. Teresa of Avila. In this episode of CarmelCast, we give a little background about the book and talk about St. Teresa's insistence on love of neighbor as a foundation for living a life of prayer.

This homily was preached at the funeral of Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD on January 21, 2021, at Holy Hill Basilica by Fr. Michael Berry, OCD, Provincial.

St. John of the Cross is largely unknown and frequently misunderstood in the Church today. Join us as we discuss the life and teaching of the Mystical Doctor. In this episode, we discuss the last years of his life and his death.

St. John of the Cross is largely unknown and frequently misunderstood in the Church today. Join us as we discuss the life and teaching of the Mystical Doctor. In this episode, we discuss his work as a spiritual writer.

St. John of the Cross is largely unknown and frequently misunderstood in the Church today. Join us as we discuss the life and teaching of the Mystical Doctor. In this episode, we discuss his work as a spiritual director and formator.

St. John of the Cross is largely unknown and frequently misunderstood in the Church today. Join us as we discuss the life and teaching of the Mystical Doctor. In this episode, we discuss his capture and imprisonment by his Carmelite brothers.

St. John of the Cross is largely unknown and frequently misunderstood in the Church today. Join us as we discuss the life and teaching of the Mystical Doctor. In this episode, we discuss his work with St. Teresa of Avila to initiate what would become the Discalced Carmelite Friars.

St. John of the Cross is largely unknown and frequently misunderstood in the Church today. Join us as we discuss the life and teaching of the Mystical Doctor. In this episode, we discuss his early education and decision to become a Carmelite.

St. John of the Cross is largely unknown and frequently misunderstood in the Church today. Join us as we discuss the life and teaching of the Mystical Doctor. In this episode, we discuss the childhood of St. John of the Cross.

This year has seen some timid attempts at commemorating the 75th anniversary of the conclusion of World War II. With all the blockage derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, though, worthwhile attention to some events will be missed. This could be the case for Père Jacques of Jesus, the friar of the Paris Province who died, perhaps more tragically than others, not actually during the war, but a few brief weeks after its end when U.S. troops liberated him from German Nazi imprisonment in Austria.

St. Teresa of Avila has given us piercing insights into the heights of mystical prayer and the phenomena that can come with it. What most inspires from her life and writings, however, is that tenacity with which she drove to do the simplest thing: God’s will. She knew what it was to experience fear.

Saint Thérèse enriched her teaching on the “Little Way” with several interesting images. She once spoke of herself as a small grain of sand but not “discouraged because God cannot inspire unrealizable desires”; and she more or less identified herself as a little chick protected by the mother hen that represented God in the protection of Divine Providence over her. There is another diminutive image she proposed that looks equally useful to the general public. She once advised her sister Céline “Before dying by the sword let us die by pin-pricks”