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What Works: Regular Meals
by Phil Fox Rose

One of the things I notice whenever I spend time on retreat at a monastery (as I did a few weeks ago) is how much I enjoy the regular meal times, with some of the same food choices day after day. This is not the way I live my life. Which makes me wonder: Why don't I do the same thing at home? At the monastery, breakfast is one hour after I wake up -- 1 hard-boiled egg, 2 slices of toast with orange marmalade. Lunch is four hours later; dinner, ...
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July 14th, 2011
What Works: Regular Meals
One of the things I notice whenever I spend time on retreat at a monastery (as I did a few weeks ago) is how much ...
July 13th, 2011
The Perfect Faith for ADHD
When I came into the Catholic Church nine years ago, the farthest thing from my mind was how its rituals and liturgy might mesh so ...
June 15th, 2011
What Works: How Sweet to Do Nothing
Give yourself the gift of time with no goals -- on retreat, on vacation and at home
Our new level of connectedness is a wonderful thing -- perhaps the greatest blessing technology has brought us. But it has created a new problem. In this hyper-connected world, time in which you can do ...
June 10th, 2011
A Newbie’s Guide to Confession
Why doesn't the Church sell this?
Trying to explain Confession (the Sacrament of Reconciliation) to non-Catholics reminds me of that old cartoon by James Thurber where a woman is in the ...
June 8th, 2011
Pentecost in Two Minutes
A brief illustration of the birthday of the Church
Can't remember what or when Pentecost is? Well for starters, it's this Sunday; and if you want a little more info on this celebration of the Holy Spirit and the birthday of the Church, take ...
June 2nd, 2011
What Works: Meat-free Fridays
Reviving an abstinence tradition that never really went away
A few weeks ago, when the bishops of England and Wales decided to reestablish the practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays, I had been thinking about the issue already after seeing friends struggle with ...
May 26th, 2011
What Works: Get Outdoors
Spending time outside is nurturing for you spiritually and physically
Making sure to fit nature into my life, and encouraging others to do to the same, is a passion of mine. As a writer, it's easy enough to stay holed up indoors in a room ...
May 5th, 2011
The Eternal Temple in the Eternal City
The construction of the Mormon temple in Rome and the role of temples in worship
There was tenderness and reverence in his voice as Thomas S. Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), said the Mormon temple being built in Rome, Italy, "uniquely, is being ...
May 4th, 2011
What Works: “In the face of a man’s death, a Christian never rejoices”
A look at the responses to bin Laden's death
I was going to stay quiet on the whole issue of the public reaction to bin Laden's killing, but after an hour or so of ...
May 3rd, 2011
Interview: Charlie Cox
The man who plays St. Josemaria Escrivá in the upcoming There Be Dragons talks about forgiveness, Opus Dei and how playing a saint has affected him
When I talked last week with Charlie Cox about his role as St. Josemaria Escrivá in the movie There Be Dragons (written and directed by ...
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