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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Guest post by Owen Swain. A dear friend of mine, a blogger whom I actually met — in our kitchen, over a meal — a…
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It would seem I got a bit of a buzz over my Clarity article, for all the wrong reasons, but you must roll with…
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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…
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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…