Joy (Finding and Spreading)
“The reason the Church puts restrictions on pleasures…is not that she is against them, but she wants you to be able to distinguish...
Home
“Christianity demands that the family be a small church…Our home is a little church, and creating the right sort of context and...
Calling from Christ
“Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Ten words. These ten words completely turned the lives of these men upside down and in...
Healing and Suffering
“Sorrows are the best harbingers of the will of God, and from the beginning of the age they have served as a sign of God’s election. God...
Gifts and Talents
“It’s impossible to harvest the fields with a shovel, or to hammer with a sickle, or to build with a knife, or to dig with a saw… but...
Intellectual Pride
“The pride of the mind is much more disastrous than the pride of the will, because the pride of the will can be observed by the mind,...
Love of Self
“From a spiritual perspective, much of what we experience on a moment-to-moment basis, is pathological. That is to say, it is a product...
Patience, Persistence, and Perseverance
“Many people today lack perseverance. We have become so accustomed to instantaneous communication and access to entertainment and...
Despondency
“It is a commonplace in the Fathers to describe despair or sadness as the result of failing to get what we want. It sounds quite simple,...
Saving Knowledge
“We fail to understand that knowledge is an act of communion. In some measure, everything we “know” becomes a part of us, and in becoming...