30 Years Ago Today…
Mev died. I received a beautiful correspondence from Peggy Mosher this evening. She shared about reading The Book of Mev second time. Her son Pete studied with me at SLU in 2001; years later I…
Category: Catholicism
Simplify
For there are only three kinds of good. So if a thing is not virtuous, useful, or pleasant, it’s not really good. So fagetaboutit! Simplify your life by throwing out all the things you have…
Walking Wonders
Man is Homo ambulans. This is part of his natural law, the law of reason. This endowment enables him to get to places about his home or to the top of Mount Ranier. Walking is…
Keep at It
If there is one thing I have learned from Mother Angelica and Father Fessio, two of the brightest stars in the Church today, it is that good ideas ought to be pursued, and then one…
Learn from the Saints
Look at the example given by saints in every walk of life. There is nothing that they have not done in order to love God and be his devoted followers. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to…
Today’s One-Liner (#323)
Vain thoughts and useless plans, I abjure you. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, trans. JK Ryan, 44
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…
Today’s One-Liner (#321)
With detachment, life’s ups and downs need hardly affect our security at all. –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes, 136
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…