I went to a healing retreat last month, and one of the speakers was a priest and exorcist. His talk included thoughts about Matthew 12:43-45, when an unclean spirit returns to the place it was removed and brings along its friends. The point, the speaker said, is that when demons have been cast out of… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Author: Melanie
Melanie Rigney is the author of Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century and other Catholic books. She is a contributor to Living Faith and other Catholic blogs. She lives in Arlington, Virginia. Melanie also owns Editor for You, a publishing consultancy that since 2003 has helped hundreds of writers, publishers, and agents.
On the Nightstand: Spiritual Direction: A Guide for Sharing the Father’s Love
My friend Pat Gohn, who also happens to be the editor at Living Faith, suggested this book recently while we were catching up on life. It’s been more than a decade since I had a spiritual director, but when Pat recommends something, I listen! I’m still in the book’s opening pages, and dogearing things to… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Spiritual Direction: A Guide for Sharing the Father’s Love
On the Nightstand: The Great Unknown: The Holy Spirit and His Gifts
I’m pretty confident that if you ask 10 friends to which Person of the Holy Trinity they pray, eight or nine of them will say God the Father or Jesus. The Holy Spirit just doesn’t seem to get as much attention, beyond the beautiful “Come, Holy Spirit” prayer. I’m looking forward to delving into this… Continue reading On the Nightstand: The Great Unknown: The Holy Spirit and His Gifts
On the Nightstand: Tree of Souls by Howard Schwartz
The queen of looking back was Lot’s wife. In Genesis 19, angels tell Lot his city will be destroyed due to the Lord’s displeasure, and that he, his wife, and his two daughters need to leave and not look back. And Lot, whose actions are sometimes less than admirable (earlier, he offered to let his… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Tree of Souls by Howard Schwartz