Ascensional or Incarnational Spirituality: Threading the Needle

Should we expect, or even desire, to be happy in this life?

Portrait of Lieven Willemsz van Coppenol (detail), Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1658 (source)

Although he was once much more popular than he has tended to be in recent decades, the Benedictine spiritual writer Dom Hubert van Zeller (1905–1984) has been making something of a comeback, as both Sophia Institute Press and especially Cenacle Press are republishing …