After the fever of life – after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding – after all the…
CHAPTER V. Considerations, the Second Part of Meditation. AFTER this exercise of the imagination, we come to that of the understanding: for meditations, properly so…
This verse has been floating around my head for the last week now. “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities…
If those who are admitted as members are not commanded to abjure by any form of words the Catholic doctrines, this omission, so far…
On the institution of the Militia Immaculata: I remember when, as a boy, I bought myself a figurine of the Immaculata for five kopecks. I…
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time First Reading Num 11:25-29 [25] And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away of…
From Catechetical Lectures, XVIII (NPNF-II, Vol. VII): But since the word Ecclesia is applied to different things (as also it is written of the multitude in the theater…
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
{Note from the Editor: The other day, Brian mentioned an idea to do an illustration of a Saint each week. I’ve been looking for a…
CHAPTER IV. The Third Point of Preparation, representing the Mystery to be meditated to Your Imagination. FOLLOWING upon these two ordinary points, there ere is…
