Bathrooms are places of privacy that offer unique opportunities for reflection and insight. A stall, for instance, can serve as a refuge from the pressures of the workplace. The single user restroom can be an oasis for someone who needs a moment to cry or think things through. Even in a household, where all other spaces are held in common, the bathroom is set apart and can thus function as a domestic chapel. Because it is where we do our business, in fact, the bathroom is the perfect venue to tend to our spiritual lives and sort through our interior business! The next time, therefore, we lament that we do not have a proper sanctuary for prayer, let’s go to our literal inner room, close the door and spend time with our heavenly father who both made us and speaks to us in secret (Ps 137:15, Mt 6:6). Ave Crux, Spes Unica.
December 16, 2023
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