Tag: Spiritual Formation

• No One Wants to Hear This

  A Catholic reflection on the Church’s real crisis: not external threats, but the loss of interior life, silence, and true spiritual transformation.

  RMDell’Orfano

  April 3, 2026

  Mysticism, Religion, Uncategorized

  Catholic Church, Catholic commentary, Catholic renewal, Christian spirituality, Church crisis, contemplation, Contemplative Outreach, ecclesial reform, Faith and Culture, holiness, inner transformation, interior life, media influence, modern culture, monastic spirituality, New Oxford Review, prayer life, silence and prayer, Spiritual Formation, technology and faith, Thomas Keating, Trappist spirituality

• Embracing Poverty—I Found Christ

  An excerpt from Path Perilous recounting chosen poverty, quiet companionship with pensioners, and the discovery of Christ in a wounded World War II veteran.

  RMDell’Orfano

  January 14, 2026

  Autobio

  Beacon Hill, Boston, Christ among the poor, Christian memoir, detachment, Franciscan poverty, funeral Mass, hidden holiness, Path Perilous, Purple Heart, Spiritual Formation, veterans, vocation, World War II

• The Untamed Beast

  A parable exposing the limits of bookish religion and the necessity of a lived obedience to Scripture.,

  RMDell’Orfano

  December 26, 2025

  Religion

  Alter Christus, Canadian Indian guanlets, Early Jesuit Traiing, Monastic Wisdom, Obedience, Parable, Repentance, Scripture Lived, Spiritual Formation, St Francis of Assist\, The Narrow Way