Knowing the Father's Love

Allowing ourselves to be loved, especially in those areas that seem most out of control, most broken, most poor, and most unlovable, brings about a powerful encounter with a God who is infinite love,” Fr. Thomas Acklin, OSB, and Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB, two Benedictine monks at St. Vincent Archabbey and Seminary in Latrobe, Pa., write in their book Spiritual Direction: A Guide for Sharing the Father's Love. “This helps our theology to become real and experiential in our lives,” they continue. NR's Kathryn Jean Lopez talks to them about what exactly spiritual direction is and how it helps people to know God as father at a time when human hearts ache for direction.