Father Carr's Place 2B

06/15/2026

Looking for Signs of Hope and Promise More than anything else, [the contemplative critic] will look for signs of hope and promise in the situation in which he finds himself….

06/14/2026

Getting to the Heart of the Matter The contemplative is not needy or greedy for human contacts, but is guided by a vision of what he has seen beyond the trivial concerns of a possessive world.

06/13/2026

Heart Speaks to Heart The spiritual life means that the Spirit of Love is given to us so that we can live with that Spirit within us. 

06/12/2026

A great volunteer opportunity for a family or a group of friends! 

Thank you for your desire to cook for our residents! Sunday evening meal teams will prepare dinner for the residents of our Bethlehem Inn. Dinner is served at 5:00pm. We encourage meal teams to have our female residents join in the meal preparation, but meals can be prepped at home and brought in. P...

06/12/2026

“Lord, please don’t let me lose my love for my husband,” I would pray. After years of living with a man with active alcoholism, I felt anything but loving. In fact, I was often in despair, full of fear, grief, and resentment, and on my knees with this prayer on my lips. I was trying […]

06/12/2026

Making Love Visible It is God’s love that allows us to love one another. It is that first love that is the basis for all creative human relationships.

06/11/2026

Attachment, as we have seen in previous articles (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four), is central to addiction, recovery, and spiritual growth. St. Ignatius of Loyola describes his Spiritual Exercises as “every way of preparing and disposing the soul to rid itself of all inordinate atta...

06/11/2026

Nothing Human Is Alien Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty that the world knows all too well is also rooted in our own impulses.

06/10/2026

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06/10/2026

Often, we may plateau on our recovery journey. This is when we experience renewed temptations because we have grown in positive habits and acquired new tools but have not yet conquered our pride. Pride is, in truth, the biggest stumbling block for addicts. This is just as true at the start of our re...