Live Today Well: St. Francis de Sales's Simple Approach to Holiness by Fr. Thomas Dailey, Sophia Institute Press, 2015. PART 1: SALESIAN SPIRITUALITY St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), "an exemplary witness of Christian humanism" in the words of Pope … [Read more...]
Fill These Hearts: God, Sex, and the Universal Longing by Christopher West, New York: Image Books, 2012. What this Book is About "In short, the simple and, at the same time, lofty goal of this book is to help us aim our desire according to … [Read more...]
This Christmas, we must enter into the spirituality of the wise men. We must engage the deepest desires of our hearts and have the courage to follow the inner ache until we kneel before the infant Christ. Listen to these words of Pope Benedict … [Read more...]
Into Your Hands, Father: Abandoning Ourselves to the God Who Loves Us by Wilfrid Stinissen, Ignatius Press, 2011. Quick Summary of the Book: Based on the life of Christ (see Hebrews 10:7, Luke 23:46), Stinissen puts forward surrender as the central … [Read more...]
So two different books I've been reading lately seem to be calling me out for something I've been guilty of many times - that of having an impurity of heart at times in striving for a good thing - "the spiritual life" - but doing so to escape from … [Read more...]
Donkey Bells: Advent and Christmas Stories, Traditions and Meditations with Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Compiled and edited by Mary Bazzett, Madonna House Publications, Combermere, Ontario, 2008. Book 1 – Meditations “Advent is a short season, yet … [Read more...]
Teresa of Ávila. The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus. Edited by Benedict Zimmerman. Translated by David Lewis. Fifth Edition. London: Thomas Baker, 1916. Charity "I never spoke ill in the slightest degree whatever of any one" (35). "Let us labour, … [Read more...]
Saints: A Closer Look by Fr. Thomas Dubay, Servant Books, 2007. Introduction "Saints are moral miracles far beyond the capabilities of human nature left to itself... Each of them has had "a spiritual revolution" (Eph 4:23)" (1). PART 1: PRELIMINARY … [Read more...]
In his book, Saints: A Closer Look (SACL) Fr. Thomas Dubay asks two great questions on page 11. Isn't it enough, one might say, just to squeeze into heaven? Is it that important that I strive to be a saint? These questions are similar to … [Read more...]
Talk # 1 Preaching is the first office of the priest and the key to the New Evangelization. If our primary occupation is the institutional church, then people will not hear the Word, they won’t hear about Jesus. “At the beginning of the Church, … [Read more...]
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