Anxiety has bee plaguing me most of the summer. I know intellectually that God is calling me to a deeper trust in Him and rely…
CHAPTER XXI. How to Communicate. BEGIN your preparation over-night, by sundry aspirations and loving ejaculations. Go to bed somewhat earlier than usual, so that you…
CHAPTER XX. Of Frequent Communion. IT is said that Mithridates, King of Pontus, who invented the poison called after him, mithridate, so thoroughly impregnated his…
CHAPTER XIV. Of Holy Communion, and how to join in it. 1. SO far I have said nothing concerning the Sun of all spiritual exercises,…
The social condition of man is that we are never ever alone; I can’t even run away from self-consciousness, try as I may. God, whether…
There is something about the Western mind that just cannot be content with mystery. Eastern Churches do this much better, but we Westerners need to…
Guest post by Owen Swain. A dear friend of mine, a blogger whom I actually met — in our kitchen, over a meal — a…
It would seem I got a bit of a buzz over my Clarity article, for all the wrong reasons, but you must roll with…
I have found throughout the years many of our separated brethren have left the Church. Prior to my conversion to the Catholic Church, they would…
This is surely what we read in the Proverbs of Solomon: If you sit down to eat at the table of a ruler, observe carefully…