Incarcerated
The god I worshipped was my own delusion, and if I tried to find in it a place to rest my burden, there was nothing there to uphold it. It only fell and weighed me…
Category: Catholicism
Take Your Pick
To many the saying, “Deny thyself, take up thy cross and follow Me,” seems hard, but it will be much harder to hear that final word: “Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.” –Thomas…
Wake up!
What’s most pathetic is the insipidly modernized brand of Christianity that bows down before everything that’s most ephemeral in contemporary thought. Christians don’t see that they have at their disposal an instrument that is incomparably…
Cultivate Courtesy
Francis said: Know, dear brothers, that courtesy is one of the attributes of God, who courteously makes a present to us of his sun and his rain, giving them both to the just and unjust. …
The City of God
Politics, though, represents only once facet of a book that stands also as a monumental achievement in theology, philosophy, history, and literature. Its arguments have been the subject of voluminous scholarship and debate across sixteen…
Today’s One-Liner (#361)
I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. –Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer, #136
What Feels Like Prayer Today?
The following is a reflection Annie Cosby shared with our friends who are practicing gratitude. Enjoy! I’m not incredibly religious, but very spiritual and grew up in the Catholic tradition. I saw this video and…
Today’s One-Liner (#354)
My one purpose, then, would be to accomplish the will of God, to sacrifice myself for Him in the way that would please Him. –St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: Autobiography, 218
So Many Afflicted till …
His fame spread throughout Syria, and those who were suffering from diseases and painful complaints of one kind or another, the possessed, epileptics, the paralysed, were all brought to him, and he cured them. –The…
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…