Praying
When you say prayers, say: Father, may your kingdom be ours. Give us bread for today. Overlook our indebtedness to others, as we overlook theirs to us. Give us the strength to resist temptations. –Guy…
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Today’s One-Liner (#156)
Someone who knows Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, Augustine, or Aquinas will never be too far from the truth, never out-of-date. –James V. Schall, S.J., A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning
Today’s One-Liner (#155)
When our relationships become strained we can ask ourselves what Jesus would have done—or, when that seems too lofty, what Saint Teresa or Saint Francis wold have done. —Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness, 166
Words Matter: A Summer Writing and Speaking Class
We all can render a great service by listening to opposing opinions without agitation, discourtesy, or violence, and by offering our opinions not as nonnegotiable demands but as calm, courteous statements. —Sri Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad…
Today’s One-Liner (#154)
Wherever the corpse is, that is where the vultures will gather. –Matthew 24: 28, New Jerusalem translation For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. –Matthew 24:28, King James translation
A Simple Alternative to Perfectionism
My dear Mother, you can see that I am a very little soul and that I can offer God only very little things. It often happens that I allow these little sacrifices which give such…
Lessons from a Catholic Activist
Learn to Pivot Love the Ones You’re Given Embrace Mercy Learn to Grieve Find Your Heart Celebrate Life Unconditionally Beware of False Compassion Begin Anew –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change…
Today’s One-Liner (#148)
In Poor Folk we have the first timid and hesitant expression of the great theme of theodicy, the questioning of the wisdom of the world created by God—thus a questioning of God himself—that will ultimately…
Good News
The meaning of order is there, but it is precisely its presence that determines the vestigial character of the treatment of it. The reason lies in the fact that the violence of the cultural order…
Today’s One-Liner (#146)
Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. –The Elder Zosima, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov