Admitting Our Faults You tell me of the young lady who was upset because I did not go to hear he confession after promising to do so. Believe me, I feel this...
Events Show Us God’s Will The will of God, called the will of good-pleasure by the Fathers of the Church, is known by the events which happen. Therefore the...
God’s Plan for Us The world is blind, and God hides His providence. Whether Christ is at our doors or not, but a few may have grace enough to conjecture;...
Vocations to the Religious Life May the good Lord save His Church in this the hour of peril; when Satan seeks to sap and corrupt where he dare not openly...
Treasure of the Blessed Sacrament When Christ ascended into the Mount, “His face did shine as the sun” (Mt 17:2). Such is the glorious presence which...
Repentance There are such imperfections, such inconstancies in the heart and life of even the better sort of men that continual repentance must ever go hand in...
God Provides Direction False wisdom, of which St. Paul speaks, is trusting our own powers for arriving at religious truth, instead of taking what is divinely...
Diligence in Serving God You say, “How can I pray to see Christ, who am so unclean?” Do you expect in this life ever to be clean? Yes, in one sense, by...
God’s Prompting by Grace While God remains in the highest heavens, He comes to judge the world – and while He judges the world, He is in us also, bearing...
Renewal of the Lord’s Death Take this view of the Lord’s Supper as the appointed means of obtaining the great blessings you need. The daily prayers of the...
Self-knowledge Let us approach God, confessing that we do not know ourselves; that we are more guilty than we can possibly understand, and can but timidly...
Mary’s Gift of Grace Who can estimate the holiness and perfection of her who was chosen to be the Mother of Christ? What must have been the transcendent...
Apostolicity of the Church Christianity has spread from a center by regularly formed bodies, descendants of the three thousand, who, after St. Peter’s...
Christ, Living Son of the Father It is impossible for a Christian to meditate on the Gospels without feeling all manner of doubt that He Who is the subject of...
Pray for Knowledge of Our Duty Wait diligently on God, pray earnestly to teach us more of our duty and to impress the love of it on our hearts. Pray Him to...
My Brothers and sisters in the Lord, I just wanted to take a brief moment to give an update on my prayer request from last month. I had asked for prayers that...
Walking Through Life With Christ Christians, on looking back on years past, will feel, at least in a degree, that Christ has been with them, though they knew...
Accepting Injustice When you are accused of something unjustly, it is so hard to be nice to your accusers. Yet these are the instruments God is using to...
God Feels Our Coldness God is incapable of suffering or feeling pain, but yet Scripture tells us, “When the Lord saw how great was man’s wickedness on...
Before a Decision, Pray In important matters especially, we must seek clear lights from God. It happens often that we do not do the will of God but our own,...
Characteristics of Christian Life Let us learn from whatever gifts of mind we have henceforth to keep them under and to subject them to innocence, simplicity,...
In God’s Own Time Though David received the gift of God’s Holy Spirit, yet nothing came of it all at once. He still seemed like any other man. So it is...
Forgotten and Unconfessed Sins O most dreadful thought, if an account lies against us in God’s books, which we have never manfully encountered, never...
Seeking Happiness Correctly Left to ourselves, we seek good from the world, but cannot find it; in youth we look forward, and in age we look back. Seek we...
Newborn Creatures in Christ The Gospel covenant is the means of introducing us to a state of life so different from that in which we were born that it may be...
Refreshing Our Spirit in God We do not know, perhaps, what or where our pain is; we are so used to it that we do not call it pain. Still so it is; we need a...
Turning the Other Cheek Do not be too eager to suppose you are ill-treated for your religions sake. Make as light of matters as you can. And beware of being...
Letting Our Light Shine We must manifest the Kingdom of heaven upon earth. The light of divine truth must proceed from our hearts and shine upon everything we...
Persistence in Prayer They who pray for the Spirit’s saving help do not all at once gain what they seek. But if they come continually day by day, if they...
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