From today’s Saint: Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. –St. Rose of Lima
The debate in favor of the sinlessness of Mary has ranged in degrees from befitting the Mother of the Lord to a necessity for our redemption. In meditating on this truth this morning, I tend toward the latter end of the spectrum, but either way the truth of this mystery follows logically from what is revealed of God. The key to the mystery is the free exercise of Mary’s will.
39. Certainly, in the full and strict meaning of the term, only Jesus Christ, the God-Man, is King; but Mary, too, as Mother of the…
It is love makes faith, not faith love. –Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman (Parochial and Plain Sermons)
It is easy to put canonized Saints on a pedestal. They are the best of humanity, most able to give love, humblest, theological prodigies, and…
As I look around me, I see people of varying levels and degrees of faith. I know very few, if any, atheists. But I see…
CHAPTER XXIII. It is needful to put away all Inclination for Useless and Dangerous Things. SPORTS, balls, plays, festivities, pomps, are not in themselves evil,…
You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy – the root of all…
We cannot keep to ourselves the words of eternal life given to us in our encounter with Jesus Christ: they are meant for everyone, for…
After these things I looked, and behold a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard, as it were, of a…
