The institutional Church is the most economical and efficient means by which the Christian reality can be made accessible, at least minimally, to masses of people. –James Hitchcock, The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism,…
My heroes showed me a source for strength far greater than myself.
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…
By the first quarter of the twenty-first century, what is driving many Western converts into the Church is not resistance to Catholic teaching, but desired fidelity to it. –Mary Eberstadt, 1968 IS SO OVER
So we plod along, more or less in the dark, more or less humiliated by the dreary quality of our prayer, our worship by turns inane and trivial, our sense of the holy vitiated, distracted,…
Patience attains the goal. –Saint Teresa of Ávila, quoted in Eknath Easwaran, God Makes the Rivers to Flow: Passages for Meditation, 1982
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…
I applied myself to practicing little virtues, not having the capability of practicing the great. For instance, I loved to fold up the mantles forgotten by the Sisters, and to render them all sorts of…
Part of the trouble is that so few who walked out landed anywhere. Frying pan to fire; they left the church and the culture swallowed them whole. It seems better, as a rule, to hang…
“Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?” –The Gospel of Luke 24:32