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THE WAY January 2016
Spirituality and Living
Pray Anywhere 57–59
Matt Kappadakunnel
Matt Kappadakunnel is a busy investment manager living in Los Angeles.
Like many committed Christians, he struggles to find time to pray as he
would wish to. Here, in our occasional Spirituality and Living strand, he
offers a New Year reflection on how to find times and spaces for prayer.
A Reflection on the Charism of Religious Life 61–78
Loan Le
Within the Roman Catholic church, a ‘Year of Religious Life’ has just
drawn to a close. Loan Le here uses the thought of the French
Dominican theologian Jean-Marie Tillard to show how a state of life
characterized by the three vows of poverty, chastity and obedience can only
be fully understood in the context of the wider Church. For it is only
within the Church that we can hear and respond to such a call of the
Spirit.
Paying Attention to the Wisdom of Our Sorrows 79–88
Peter Wilcox
The idea of making use of the experience of sorrow in order to live a more
positive and fruitful life may seem a strange one. However, in his work as a
psychotherapist over the last three decades, Peter Wilcox has become
convinced that this is possible. Here he suggests ways in which sorrows can
indeed be used positively, rather than being wasted in regret and
recrimination.
The Experience of the Absence of God According to John of
the Cross
Louis Roy
The experience of God’s silence or seeming absence has been described by
many Christians (and Jews) over many centuries. For some, this has led to
an abandonment of their faith; for others, the experience has ultimately
brought them to a deeper trust in God. The Spanish Carmelite John of the
Cross reflected deeply on this phenomenon, and here Louis Roy traces
some aspects of his thought.
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