Day 40 Today, the fortieth day of the fast, we come to the end of Lent for this year. Sometimes people are surprised at this; we commonly...

Day 39 There was someone in a parish I pastored long ago who was a very difficult person. She would not come to church very often, but...

Day 38 Some of the chapters of Unseen Warfare are so good that I finish reading them and despair of saying anything about them. They say...

Day 37 Yesterday I spoke about my own struggles in acquiring the virtue of patience. In the thirty-seventh chapter of Unseen Warfare, the...

Day 36 We’ve talked before about an order for acquiring the virtues, but in chapter thirty-six, Unseen Warfare makes an additional...

Day 35 Some years ago a young woman came to my office who was drowning in debt. We looked at the situation. She had multiple credit cards...

Day 34 The thirty-fourth chapter of Unseen Warfare brings us to the next stage of spiritual development. To quote: But let us suppose...

Day 33 As Unseen Warfare has described the process of following after God so far, it has told us to act on the good we perceive in our...

Day 32 For the last two days we’ve considered those who utterly reject the love of God and set their faces against any communion with...

Day 31 Yesterday we spoke about the one who walks in spiritual darkness and cannot hear when the good news of God’s light-producing...

Day 30 When couples come to me for pre-marriage counseling, I will often spend one session trying to convey to them the goodness of the...

Day 29 Many years ago I worked as a counselor at a drug and alcohol rehab center. One of the residents described his addiction as...

Day 28 Chapter twenty eight of Unseen Warfare tells us what to do when we are wounded in battle. This is a good way to put it – not to...

Day 27 The title of the twenty-seventh chapter of Unseen Warfare is a great piece of advice in itself: A warrior of Christ should use all...

Day 26 Since the twenty-sixth chapter of Unseen Warfare deals with the subject of imagination and memory, we need to understand the...

Day 25 In the eleventh step of St. John Climacus’ Ladder of Divine Ascent, he says this about the tongue: Talkativeness is the throne of...

Day 24 Today Unseen Warfare continues to address the senses by taking each sense one at a time, and suggesting ways to keep ourselves in...

Day 23 In its twenty-third chapter, Unseen Warfare again addresses the subject of the senses and their impact on our spiritual life....

Day 22 Today’s chapter from Unseen Warfare is both wonderful and difficult to hear. To quote: I have shown you above how from sensory...

Day 21 The twenty first chapter of Unseen Warfare addresses the subject of the senses, and how we are to have control over them, in order...