Spiritual Direction

TO say I was born in sin is to say I came into the world with a false self. I was born in a mask. I came into existence under a sign of contradiction, being someone that I was never intended to be and therefore a denial of what I am supposed to be. And thus I came into existence and nonexistence at the same time because from the very start I was so

When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary.

Sometimes beauty is that unpredictable; a threshold we had never noticed opens, mystery comes alive around us and we realize how the earth is full of concealed beauty.

we should remember that beauty does not restrict its visitations only to those whom fortune or circumstances favour.

Yet beauty is so quietly woven through our ordinary days that we hardly notice it. Everywhere there is tenderness, care and kindness, there is beauty.

More like a visitation than a solid fact, beauty invests the aura of a person or infuses a landscape with an unexpected intimacy that satisfies our longing. True beauty cannot be invented or manufactured. We ‘cannot bear very much reality’. Neither, it seems, can we bear very much beauty.

BEAUTY LIKES NEGLECTED PLACES ONLY IN SOLITUDE CAN YOU DISCOVER A sense of your own beauty. The Divine Artist sent no-one here without the depth and light of divine beauty. This beauty is frequently concealed behind the dull façade of routine. Only in your solitude will you come upon your own beauty.

It likes to find a neglected or abandoned place, for it knows that it is only here it will meet the kind of light that respects its shape, dignity and nature. There is a deep beauty within each person. Modern culture is obsessed with cosmetic perfection. Beauty is standardized; it has become another product for sale. In its real sense, beauty is th