Today’s One-Liner (#173)

In some radical circles the vehemence of one’s feelings against the hierarchy is taken as an index of genuine Christianity.   –James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism, 1971

Each and Every

Therefore we take joy in all  the living, the unborn, the rejected and despised, those declared expendable, the aged (so often also unwanted).  We welcome them all!  We rejoice in each and every one!  –Daniel…

A Committed Priest

What was Fr. Mankowski’s  crime? Faithful obedience to the Magisterium of Holy Mother Church. That, and  a severe love of the Truth, and an inability to keep his mouth shut about it.  –Karen Hall, The…

Wake Up Already!

In our own place and time, we have made a science of escape and sleep. Rather than live at that sharp edge of life, awake and alert, we pretend that we have no sin. There…

Today’s One-Liner (#169)

To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that. –Saint Teresa of Avila, quoted in Eknath Easwaran, Love Never Faileth: The Inspiration of Saint Francis, Saint. Augustine, Saint Paul, and Mother…

Boldness

The Sovereign Pontiff lowered his head toward me in such a way that my face almost touched his, and I saw his eyes, black and deep, fixed on me and they seemed to penetrate to…

By Little and Little

If you do not overcome small, trifling things, how will you overcome the more difficult? Resist temptations in the beginning, and unlearn the evil habit lest perhaps, little by little, it lead to a more…

First Things First

If men used as much care in uprooting vices and implanting virtues as they do in discussing problems, there would not be so much evil and scandal in the world, or such laxity in religious…

Today’s One-Liner (#167)

No one ever sees himself as casting the first stone. –René Girard, Maxim #22, in All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings, edited by Cynthia L. Haven

Small Things

It is this attitude—this unblinking alertness to the meaning of each moment— that probably accounts for the intense compression of Thérèse’s spiritual development. She just didn’t miss a beat. As a novice, she was exerting…