Stepping Stones Daily Devotional

Costly Grace Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession,...

Suffering for the Sake of Christ? You’re in Good Company Christ believed in suffering as the will of God....

Praying for Others Changes Us Now if you would only forgive their sin. But if not, please erase me...

The Jesus Prayer And this is our Beloved’s delight. Perhaps one of the things that most undermine the development...

Assurance About What We Do Not See Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. It is by its...

Our Father’s Delight And this is our Beloved’s delight. Perhaps one of the things that most undermine the development...

Solitude To enter into God’s dance of exuberant joy and fullness of life we must descend. This descent is...

Solitude Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be...

Our God Who Works in the Darkness It should be the work of Christians who believe in the paschal...

A Good Night Prayer Father, I abandon myself into your hands, do with me what you will. Whatever you...

A Song for the Weary Soul For God alone my soul in silence waits; from him comes my salvation...

Fruitfulness Begins with Faithfulness If you are faithful to be a good steward over what God has placed in...

The Discipline of Quieting our Hearts In the life of the Curé of Ars, Jean Marie Vianney, there is...

A Model in Suffering Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My...

Talking To Yourself From this inner conversation (you can do it if you wish), give it the following short...

Dark Night of the Soul His closest companions, those he trusted the most, could not keep awake with him...

The Power of Prayer Prayer is not controlled. We are the ones controlled, called upon to submit to a...

Grace and the Social Graces When you were growing up were you ever admonished to “mind your manners?” I...

Heaven Desired O MY LORD, May I arrive where mean of grave cease and I need no more to...

A Ministry of Healing and Reconciliation How does the Church witness to Christ in the world? First and foremost...

In His Image Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.” (Genesis 1:26). We...

Going to the Margins of the Church Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church,...

God the Source of Truth The Scriptures say that God is the source of all truth. If we turn...

Readings for Reflection Do you want to get well? is a shocking question. Of course I want to be...

The Mystery of Forgiveness I believe with all my heart that the mystery of forgiveness is the entire Gospel....