Deacon-structing Doctors of the Church, part 6

Monday, May 10, 2021

Deacon Pedro

The series concludes by looking at Teresa of Avila, Catherine of Siena, Therese of Lisieux, John of Avila, Hildegard of Bingen, and Gregory of Narek.

Deacon-structing St. Teresa’s stages of prayer, part 2

Monday, March 1, 2021

Deacon Pedro

Deacon Pedro Guevara-Mann reflects further on St. Teresa of Avila's four stages of prayer and how we move forward in our relationship with God.

Deacon-structing St. Teresa’s stages of prayer, part 1

Monday, February 22, 2021

Deacon Pedro

Deacon Pedro Guevara-Mann takes us through the first four stages of prayer described in St. Teresa's spiritual classic, The Interior Castle.

Deacon-structing spiritual reading, part 1

Monday, February 15, 2021

Deacon Pedro

As we approach the season of Lent, Deacon Pedro gives us some recommendations for how to give our faith a boost with some spiritual reading.

Telling them apart: Teresa, Teresa, Thérèse, and Edith

Saturday, September 5, 2020

Kristina Glicksman

Every year between August and October, we celebrate the memorials of four amazing women named St. Teresa. Can you tell them apart?

Telling them apart: So many Johns, part 1 | Two from Ávila

Saturday, December 14, 2019

Kristina Glicksman

Kristina Glicksman explores the lives of two Spanish saints and Doctors of the Church: John of Avila and John of the Cross.

Deacon-structing: Getting to Heaven

Sunday, September 22, 2019

Deacon Pedro

How do we get to Heaven? Is it enough just to be a good person? Read this reflection by Deacon Pedro Guevara Mann and find out!

The Saints We Know and the Saints We Don’t

Monday, October 15, 2018

Fr. Matt Gworek

Quick: tell me your favourite thing about St. Agileus. St. Cannatus? St. Fortunatus? St. Thecla? Fr. Matt Gworek explores the wonderful variety of saints.

Saints and the Battle of Prayer

Friday, February 10, 2017

Salt + Light Media

Saints would be the first ones to declare that prayer is a battle. But a battle with who and what? Well, they would say, with ourselves and with whatever is keeping our eyes fixed on God. “The great figures of prayer of the Old Covenant before Christ, as well as the Mother of God, the saints, […]