CHAPTER XXIV. All Evil Inclinations must be purged away. FURTHERMORE, my daughter, we have certain natural inclinations, which are not strictly speaking either mortal or…
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with…
The sons of God and the daughters of men, the effect is death. It could read just as well for my purpose the daughters of…
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time First Reading Josh 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b Josue assembleth the people, and reneweth the covenant between them and God. His death…
From today’s Saint: Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. –St. Rose of Lima
Image and likeness has been a theme in my meditations, and so it is in chapter five. Here begins the genealogical tables of Adam’s posterity…
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 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…
