4th Sunday of Easter First Reading Acts 2:14a, 36-41 [14] But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke to them:…
I made a plenary indulgence, and now I am more pitiful. Boy, it sure didn’t take me long! The trouble is that, after having achieved…
CHAPTER VI. The First Purification, namely, from Mortal Sin. THE first purification to be made is from sin;–the means whereby to make it, the sacrament…
3rd Sunday of Easter First Reading Acts 2:14, 22-33 [14] But Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke to them:…
I know it is Easter, but I have a few last words for the Lent that is past. I’ve been Catholic for 8 years this…
CHAPTER V. The First Step must be Purifying the Soul. “THE flowers appear on the earth,” [15] says the Heavenly Bridegroom, and the time for…
This post should rightly be a praise, and yet emotionally I feel lament. As such, it is an illumination on my interior disposition. A little…
CHAPTER IV. The Need of a Guide for those who would enter upon and advance in the Devout Life. WHEN Tobias was bidden to go…
Easter Sunday First Reading Acts 10:34a, 37-43 [34]And Peter opening his mouth, said: In very deed I perceive, that God is not a respecter of…
The problem of Judas Iscariot has always puzzled me. What in the world caused him to turn on the Christ after witnessing all the miracles,…
