Category: Catholicism

How to Start

… if we want to change the world, we have to change ourselves. Unfortunately, that is not where most people begin. Most of the leaders I have met, both here and in India, strike a…

Today’s One-Liner (#322)

The Bible has always been restricted in communist countries because it is an agent for change.   –A pastor, quoted in Robert Royal, The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in…

The Crown of the Blessed

Moreover, if you do not steadily set your heart on Me, with a firm will to suffer everything for My sake, you will not be able to bear the heat of this battle or to…

Today’s One-Liner (#317)

[I]n my work, the “bad” mimesis is always dominant, but the “good” one is of course even more important.  –Cynthia Haven, Conversations with Rene Girard:  Prophet of Envy, 131

Two Kinds of People

Go back to Socrates: “Know thyself.” For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the…

Today’s One-Liner (#314)

When your relationships become strained we can ask ourselves what Jesus would have done—or, when that seems too lofty, what Saint Teresa or Saint Francis would have done.  –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes,…

A Personal Summa

The Summae of old were the Bibles of knowledge: we have now no Summae, and no one among us is capable of writing one. Everything is in chaos. But at least, if a collective Summa…

Today’s One-Liner (#311)

Reflect that in this world nothing but virtue and devotion can satisfy your soul. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, trans. John K. Ryan, 270

Today’s One-Liner (#309)

In the same way, I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting than over ninety-nine upright people who have no need of repentance. –The Gospel according to Luke, 15:7