![Book Talk Tuesday, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part 4, Chapter 14](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/06/desales-470x140.jpg)
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…
![Book Talk Tuesday, Introduction to the Devout Life, Part 4, Chapter 13](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/06/desales-470x140.jpg)
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…
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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…
![We're All Broken People](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/glass__lucent_heart_by_raingarden-470x140.jpg)
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…
![A Tale of Oppression and Redemption](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/09/shame-350x140.jpeg)
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…
![Kingdom makes Flesh](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/08/vatican-470x140.jpg)
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….
![Catholic Quote of the Day - August 7, 2012](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/08/HiRes.jpg_quote-marks-470x140.jpg)
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,…
![My Son, My Son](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/08/duccio-di-buoninsegna-calling-of-apostles-peter-and-andrew-1308-1311-470x140.jpg)
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…
![Self-Conceit, what lies Behind](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/07/L572783012-470x140.jpg)
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…
![fog](https://concretelife.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2012/06/384619052_af95495da3-470x140.jpg)
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…