Concrete Life
"…laying up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of the life which is life indeed." 1 Timothy 6:19
Menu
  • Home
    • About
    • Our New Name
    • Contact Us
  • Editor’s Choice
  • Conversion Stories
  • Videos
  • Prayers
  • Quotes

Our Mission

What makes one a Christian? How should Christian life be lived? Who decides what Christianity is? What did Jesus mean by the Kingdom of God? How can I grow in faith, love, and holiness?

Concrete Life explores all these questions and more, together with our families, joyfully living out our faith in the fullness of truth that is found in the Catholic Church. More...

Browse: Home   /   mother
Book Talk Tuesday, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part 4, Chapter 14

Book Talk Tuesday, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part 4, Chapter 14

February 11, 2014
Bekah
Book Talk, Introduction to the Devout Life

CHAPTER XIV. Of Dryness and Spiritual Barrenness. SO much for what is to be done in times of spiritual consolations. But these bright days will…

Read Article →
Book Talk Tuesday, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part 4, Chapter 13

Book Talk Tuesday, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part 4, Chapter 13

February 4, 2014
Bekah
Book Talk, Introduction to the Devout Life

CHAPTER XIII. Of Spiritual and Sensible Consolations, and how to receive them. THE order of God’s Providence maintains a perpetual vicissitude in the material being…

Read Article →
Book Talk Tuesday, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part 3, Chapter 35

Book Talk Tuesday, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part 3, Chapter 35

September 24, 2013
Bekah
Book Talk, Introduction to the Devout Life

CHAPTER XXXV. We must be Faithful in Things Great and Small. THE Bridegroom of the Canticles says that the Bride has ravished His heart with…

Read Article →
We're All Broken People

We’re All Broken People

September 17, 2012
Bekah
Reflection

I’ve made no secret of the fact that I had a difficult time growing up.  It seems to re-emerge occasionally, and I hope that deeper…

Read Article →
A Tale of Oppression and Redemption

A Tale of Oppression and Redemption

September 8, 2012
Bekah
Personal Experience

Once upon a time, there was a boy.  He was a young boy, barely into the double digits.  But he did a horrible thing and…

Read Article →
Kingdom makes Flesh

Kingdom makes Flesh

August 16, 2012
Steven Thomas
Reflection

The Kingdom of God made flesh through Abraham and His offspring.  The Kingdom of God made flesh in the Mosaic covenant and the Aaronic Priesthood….

Read Article →
Catholic Quote of the Day - August 7, 2012

Catholic Quote of the Day – August 7, 2012

August 7, 2012
Bekah
Catholic Quote of the Day, Maximilian Kolbe, Saint

The aim of creation, the end of man himself, is the love of God, Creator and Father, an ever greater love, the divinization of man,…

Read Article →
My Son, My Son

My Son, My Son

August 5, 2012
Steven Thomas
Personal Experience

I held Him in my arms and began to shake, my son, lifeless and still warm. I kissed him and told him that I loved…

Read Article →
Self-Conceit, what lies Behind

Self-Conceit, what lies Behind

July 11, 2012
Steven Thomas
Reflection

The mother of all blindness, a vice born in hell that we humans find all too natural–this terrible monster has been found in the intellectual…

Read Article →
fog

Out of the Grey

June 17, 2012
Steven Thomas
Reflection

Gray day is mine it was expected to shine, the night comes her faded white dress hovers over her clouded shame could this be my…

Read Article →
1 2 Next →

Member

Catholic Bloggers Network

Copyright © 2025

Powered by Oxygen Theme.