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Sabbath Moments
March 19, 2011 Awareness of God Welcome to Sabbath Moments hosted by Colleen at Thoughts on Grace. These moments are times when we are with God, or recognize His presence in our lives. This week I have...
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Sabbath Moments
April 2, 2011 Awareness of God Welcome to Sabbath Moments, a weekly meme hosted by Colleen at Thoughts on Grace. Visit her to read other bloggers’ treasured moments with the Lord. You might not think...
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Sabbath Moments
November 12, 2011 Awareness of God Welcome to our weekly meme hosted by Colleen at Thoughts on Grace. Visit her to read other bloggers’ Sabbath Moments and join in or comment. Death of a friend A...
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Fundamental Spiritual Truths
February 2, 2011 Conversion of Mary Magdalene, c. 1547, Paolo Veronese (b. 1528, Verona, d. 1588, Venezia), Oil on canvas, National Gallery, London Today’s reading from the Prologue of the Rule of St....
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Knowing Him Intuitively
April 19, 2012 Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, O.C.D. wrote in #150 of Divine Intimacy: When we love a person, we come to know him intuitively, and thus, better and more easily than those who...
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Taking the Catholic Faith for Granted
June 19, 2012 I have always thought of myself as “born Catholic”, or Catholic from my mother’s womb. I hate the term “cradle Catholic”, although I don’t know why. Maybe because that phrase didn’t...
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Catholic Spiritual Direction
September 3, 2012 From time to time I mention in my posts about the difficulty of getting spiritual direction these days. Many people sincerely seek a continuing improvement in their relationships...
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A Rising Catholic Influence – Dawn Eden
November 14, 2012 This video is Marcus Grodi’s interview with Dawn Eden on EWTN’s The Journey Home. Dawn’s story of her journey from Judaism into the Catholic Church and her healing from childhood...
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Magnetic Pull of the Holy Spirit
September 4, 2013 Today I read the conversion story of Father Jurgen Liias at the Coming Home Network. I urge all readers to visit there and be inspired by his journey. One paragraph struck me because...
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Behold, I Make All Things New
September 30, 2013 And He that sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new” (Rev. 21:5). Christ Enthroned in Heaven – Giotto In Mel Gibson’s, The Passion of the Christ, Jesus says these...
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Jesus, the Ultimate Empath
November 4, 2013 To be an empath is to be able to feel what others feel. Literally. A lot has been written about this phenomenon in recent years, often by New Agers who think it is some kind of psychic...
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The Benedictine Oblate and Christian Perfection
January 24, 2014 Clear Creek Abbey Solemn Monastic Profession, 9/7/13, used with permission of the Abbot Poverty, chastity, and obedience are called the three evangelical counsels, the counsels Jesus...
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The Cockle in Our Lives
February 10, 2014 Kiss of Judas, Fecamp Psalter, French Miniaturist, c. 1180, The Hague The Gospel for the Fifth Sunday After Epiphany in the Extraordinary Form is the parable of the man who sowed good...
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Misery Is a Choice
March 6, 2014 Potter Working Thrower, Wikimedia Do you know people who are truly miserable? I am not speaking here of that great percentage of the world who live in poverty and disease, in war-torn...
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A Thief’s Remarkable Confession
March 30, 2015 Often called the “Good Thief” and traditionally known as “Dismas” in the Latin Church, this man is billed as having stolen heaven in his last hour, living up to his profession. It was no...
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