The COLW Pilgrim Blog

How did St. Teresa explain the journey to self-awareness?  St. Teresa of Avila uses images of the soul as a caterpillar, butterfly or the ha...

Today's blog goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. Happily, clowns are closer to God than clever people. This was originally publishe...

Today's gospel (Luke 6:36-38) might seem on the one hand to offer us an opportunity to do something nice in the modern sense of that wor...

What can hinder us in developing the humility sufficient for growth in self-awareness? We need to be aware that the devil can present a fals...

 Today's gospel (Matthew 25: 31-46) is a challenging one for us and for many of our contemporaries. We see the events of the last judgem...

St. Teresa of Avila wrote about spiritual self-awareness in her book, The Interior Castle'. She believed self-awareness was a vital ingr...

Frequently in the gospel of Saint Mark that we are reading day by day, Jesus tells someone He has cured (or the family of someone He has rai...

Today’s gospel (Mark 6: 53-56) is very short and very simple, as are its implications for us. Where are we in these simple scenes that revea...

 Today’s gospel (Luke 2: 22-40) is full of fulfilled longing and pathos yet to come. Like any moment in our own lives, there is a sense of s...

Today's gospel (Mark 5: 1-20) is one of the most touching and bewildering in all of St Mark’s life of our Lord. It is most touching, on ...