Category: Catholicism

Get with It!

Learn self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon as you apply yourself to contemplation, you will at once feel your senses…

The United States of Judgmentalism

The fundamental problem with politics is that it is conducted entirely in the voice of The Accuser. Whereas Jesus repeatedly warns us in the strongest possible terms not to judge others, politics, especially American party…

Today’s One-Liner (#346)

Keep your heart at peace and a multitude around you will be saved. –St. Seraphim, quoted in Isaac Slater, OCSO, “Do Not Judge Anyone”: Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World, 76

Agape

…when we choose to exercise an act of agape (unselfish love), we bring the real presence of Christ to the people we love. We become tubes into which Christ comes and through which Christ moves…

Our Hearts Are Restless…

God is the very life of your soul as the soul is the life of your body. That’s the point St. Thomas makes in quoting St. Augustine. (All of St. Thomas is really only an…

Never Cease…

My friend and passionate reader Natalie Long just finished The Prison Meditations of Fr Alfred Delp and shared with me the following passage from the book. Pass it on! It remains only for me to…

Today’s One-Liner (#343)

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux,…

Without Judging

To underline: the moral crusader filled with righteous indignation proceeds obsessively, not calmly or with clarity; and his efforts are sterile, ineffective, undermined by his own lack of self-awareness.  Only contemplative attention that reflects things…

Today’s One-Liner (#342)

Believe me–to write books of piety, to compose sublime poems, all this is not worth as much as the smallest act of renunciation. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, in Francis Broome, The Little Way for Every…