When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.