Posts by Julia

St. Paul Of The Cross Passionist Retreat And Conference Center

St. Paul Of The Cross Passionist Retreat And Conference Center Detroit, Michigan Welcome to St. Paul’s St. Paul of the Cross Passionist Retreat and Conference Center offers an experience to remember! It is a welcoming, sacred place where you can truly experience the hospitality and compassion of St. Paul’s staff. You will find several meeting spaces, a beautiful chapel, 85 private guest bedrooms with individual bathroom and an...

The Categories Of Evil

I wasn’t that old when I was assigned by God to study spiritual warfare. And, very typically, I thought him, well, nuts.  Or old (being timeless). Or generally clueless about life on Earth. Evil.  Imagine. Why would I be interested in that at all? Life was life.  There were no bogey men lurking in my closet. Sure there were people who did terrible things.  But this was Earth, after all. Could you blame them? We have to live...

Jesuit Spirituality Center

Jesuit Spirituality Center Grand Coteau, Louisiana The Jesuit Spirituality Center specializes in personally directed retreats based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. Solitude and silence are important aspects of these retreats. Retreats may range from three days, five days, or eight days, to a full month.  Costs vary according to the length of the retreat. Each retreatant receives one-on-one attention from an...

Thanksgiving For Beauty

We thank you, our Father, for the beauty that lies about us: this Earth, lovely in springtime, with its bursting buds and the riot of color in flowering gardens; the cool relief of the first heavy shower after a parched summer; the golden fruitfulness of autumn; and the bracing cold of the winter months. We thank you for the symphony of sight and sound in nature – deep blue skies and green, grassy lawns; moonlit nights and the first...

Living Earth

Mothering Nature I was shown something the other day.  In one way I had the feeling that I knew this already.  But in another way, it shocked me. I mulled it over for an entire day.  And still land on it at times. The Earth as a rational, sentient wholeness that can not only live in harmony with Man, but can understand his needs and respond to them. I spent my childhood sitting in fields of long grass and walking miles through the...