https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtOlqtmsoiw We need to challenge this misconception that the Church is down on sex. When we use contraceptives, we end up harming ourselves. What is the purpose and meaning of sex? Purpose = babies & … [Read more...]
Keep Calm and Love Your Family!
January 4, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Why is it the hardest to love those we love the most? Think of a mother who is distressed because she does not see a much desired conversion of her husband being realized. Or, a father who is impatient with children who rebel against his rules. … [Read more...]
Saints on Humility
January 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Saint Teresa of Avila - Beware of false humility from the devil: Now be on your guard, daughters, against some types of humility given by the devil in which great disquiet is felt about the gravity of our sins. This disturbance can afflict in many … [Read more...]
The Chaplet of Humility
January 2, 2015 by 5 Comments
Chaplet of Humility: Opening prayer: Father, give me the humility which realizes its ignorance, admits its mistakes, recognizes its needs, welcomes advice and accepts rebukes. Help me always to praise rather than criticize, to encourage rather … [Read more...]
December in Review
January 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
On sonship - you need to be a better son instead of expecting your parents to be better parents. On sacrifice - ask God for what sacrifices you should offer up, rather than impose your own thoughts on God. On keeping secrets with God - A … [Read more...]
Late have I loved You – The Prayer of my Life
December 29, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, … [Read more...]
“G.K. Chesterton: Larger than Life” by Joseph Pearce
December 26, 2014 by Leave a Comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSeqmPQ43kI … [Read more...]
Race with the Devil by Joseph Pearce
December 26, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love by Joseph Pearce is a great biography of a man who realized he was in the gutter and wallowing in the dirt as a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist … [Read more...]
Morning Prayers
December 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Morning Prayer to God: Heavenly Father, I give you this day. I offer you now all the good that I shall do and I promise to accept for love of you all the difficulty that I shall meet. Help me to conduct myself during this day in a manner pleasing … [Read more...]
Summary of Christian Fasting: Discipling the Body, Awakening the Spirit by Sr. Mary David Totah OSB
December 23, 2014 by 2 Comments
Here are 4 perspectives on fasting: 1: Fasting and Christ Fasting is connected with Christ’s absence (Mt 9:15). Thus it is a law that no one fasts on Sundays or 50 days of Paschaltide. Denying material food, which nourishes our body, nurtures an … [Read more...]
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