CHAPTER VIII. Some Useful Hints as to Meditation. ABOVE all things, my daughter, strive when your meditation is ended to retain the thoughts and resolutions…
It’s coming! Mixing old with new, a progress report on the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization was delivered in Latin, the ancient language…
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time First Reading Isa 53:10-11 [10] And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down…
CHAPTER VII. The Conclusion and Spiritual Bouquet. THE meditation should be concluded by three acts, made with the utmost humility. First, an act of thanksgiving;–thanking…
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time First Reading Wisdom 7:7-11 [7] Wherefore I wished, and understanding was given me: and I called upon God, and the…
CHAPTER VI. The Third Part of Meditation, Affections and Resolutions. MEDITATION excites good desires in the will, or sensitive part of the soul,–such as love…
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time First Reading Gen 2:18-24 [18] And the Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone: let…
From the Catholic Encyclopedia article on St. Francis: “His dearest desire so long as he lived”, Celano tells us, “was ever to seek among wise…
Too much mud (and worse!) has been slung amongst Christians over images. Last Sunday at Mass, my youngest daughters and I, ages 4, 1 and…
As they were proceeding on their journey someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” … And to another he said, “Follow…
