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Ordering Our Loves: The Secret Architecture of a Holy Life, by Rob Sexton – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Ordering Our Loves: The Secret Architecture of a Holy Life, by Rob Sexton

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"The Annunciation". Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682). Image from Wikimedia Commons

By Rob Sexton, Catholic Exchange, Dec. 12 2025

Rob Sexton is a Catholic writer, husband, and father of six. He’s the voice behind Costly Things, a blog exploring faith, fatherhood, and spiritual formation through the lens of everyday life. A lifelong student of both theology and strength training, he writes about discipleship in the trenches. A stationary engineer by trade and contemplative by nature, he draws from late hours logged in the boiler room and the Adoration Chapel and is as comfortable with a pipe wrench in his hand as with a rosary.

The spiritual life grows the way a house does. Not all at once, and not because we force it to. It grows because the foundation is sound. Ignatius knew that, which is why he begins the Spiritual Exercises with the Principle and Foundation. Before you worry about anything else in your life or in your prayer, he says, remember what you were made for: to praise, reverence, and serve God, and to let everything else in your life serve that one purpose.

Everything falls under that.
Every desire. Every fear. Every plan you hold in your hands a little too tightly.

When that truth really begins to settle in a person, it does not usually arrive with a trumpet blast. It sneaks in quietly. You notice that certain patterns in your life lean toward God while others pull you away without your realizing it. You begin to see where you cling. You see what you reach for when you feel tired or unseen. It is an uncomfortable but honest grace. ….

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Ordering Our Loves: The Secret Architecture of a Holy Life, by Rob Sexton

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By Rob Sexton, Catholic Exchange, Dec. 12 2025

Everything falls under that. Every desire. Every fear. Every plan you hold in your hands a little too tightly.

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