Saint Teresa of Avila was a gifted teacher. Her 1577 book The Interior Castle provides a roadmap toward spiritual perfection. Teresa envisioned the soul as a castle made of a single diamond. In her book, she describes the interior journey through the rooms of this castle, culminating in the innermost chamber. There one will find…
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In today’s Gospel, Jesus gives the disciples an opportunity to quit when he asks them, “Do you also wish to go away?” We quit a lot of things. As adults, some of us have quit smoking or drinking. Some of us have quit our jobs to strike out in a new career. In most of…
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There’s nothing as tasty as cinnamon bread, the kind with powdered sugar on the top. It’s best toasted and slathered with butter. But just plain, right off the loaf, is good enough. In the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school, the nuns announced that there would be a special cinnamon bread treat for lunch. The…
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