Many people struggle with feelings of unworthiness, worrying that they are not really lovable by God. During a retreat several years ago, I had a powerful experience praying with the Hymn to Love in St. Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. I talk about the experience and the use of this passage as way of lessenting this struggle in this brief reflection.  The length of this podcast is 9:26.

This podcast offers a brief reflection of Jesus instruction to his disciples in Matthew's Gospel to be "the light of the world."  The podcast runs for 7:44.

This is a recording of the brief talk I gave at the University of St. Thomas at the final group session of the Lenten Retreat in Daily Living I gave at UST and at St. Hubert’s.  In it I talked a little more about praying with the resurrected Christ and about the Contemplatio, a prayer exercise that comes at the end of the Spiritual Exercises.  The podcast ends with a short guided reflection on the graces of the retreat.  The podcast runs for 14:51.

This is a recording of the talk I gave at UST today, durign the weekly meeting of the Lenten Retreat in Daily Living I’m giving at UST and at St. Hubert’s. In this podcast, I talk a little more about the experience of praying with the Passion (which I spoke about in the last session), about "Tomb Day" in the Ignatian Exercises, and about praying with the resurrected Jesus. (The podcast runs for 14:46.)

This is a recording of the talk I gave during this week's session of the Lenten Retreat in Daily Living I’m giving at UST and at St. Hubert’s. The talk addresses Ignatius' approach to decisionmaking. (The podcast runs for 26:21.)

This is the fifth and last in the series, Reclaiming Who I Am, based on a 3-day women's retreat I gave at St. Ignatius Retreat House in February 2008. The first two podcasts in this series focused on the myths we live with as humans and as women that prevent us from seeing ourselves as God sees us.  They represent what we must “lay down.”  The next three podcasts in the series address what we need to reclaim.  Having talked in about our need to see ourselves as the beloved of God and to recognize our giftedness, this final podcast reflects on what it means to say that each of us is individually called by God.  The length of this podcast is 15:56.

This is a recording of the talk I gave during the fourth weekly group meeting of the Lenten Retreat in Daily Living I’m giving at the University of St. Thomas.  The talk addresses spiritual consolation and spiritual desolation.  ( podcast runs for 14:56.)

This is a recording of the talk I gave during the third week of the Lenten Retreat in Daily Living at the University of St. Thomas.  During this past week, the prayer focused on sin (Week One of the Spiritual Exercises). This week, the prayer moves into Week 2 of the Spiritual Exercises, which is all about seeking the grace fo know, love and follow Jesus more closely.  The talk briefly addresses the early discourgement that sometimes arises during a retreat like this, introduces the Ignatian Triple Colloquy and then talks about the transition between Week 1 and Week 2 of the Spirtiual Exercises. Near the end of the talk, I also speak a little about the prayer material for the upcoming week. The podcast runs for 23:40.

Marian Apparitions, is the sixth and final podcast in a series drawn from an 8-day guided retreat I gave at St. Ignatius Retreat House in June 2007, on the theme of Embracing Mary. The podcast relates the story of two of the more famous Marian apparitions and reflects on both Mary\’s message and our reaction to the stories of her appearances.  The podcast runs for 14:58.