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How to Beat the Devil: Advice from Rome’s Chief Exorcist

Too many Christians do not believe in the devil, such as the Cardinal who alarmed Father Gabriele Amorth, the famous exorcist and expert on Mariology, by saying one day: “Nothing but superstition!” Others see the devil everywhere, paying him an unhealthy amount of attention. Father Amorth restores the proper perspective in this “spiritual testament” at the… Read More ›

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What is Wisdom?

Wisdom is the taste for ultimate truth, I suppose and I’d have another definition for it.  Wisdom is just simply the quality of resilience after making mistakes.  Any real human life is full of mistakes and the more mistakes the better because with more mistakes we learn.  The longer we live, the more mistakes we… Read More ›

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Understanding the Cistercian Fathers

This the final part of an interview with Fr. Michael Casey, OSCO January, 2010. (In studying their sermons) It seems to me, that Guerric of Igny took a lot of care about his discourses and he had long practice and he probably wrote them out in advance and delivered them pretty much as they are… Read More ›

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Reading the Cistercian Fathers

This is a continuation of an interview with Fr. Michael Casey, OSCO January, 2010. Br Chris:  How do you recommend reading the Cistercian Fathers? Fr Michael Casey:  It depends on the individual.  Some people you give them a reading list and they read it, other people you give them a reading list and they don’t… Read More ›

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Monastery life calls to young man

BY AVI SELK – The Dallas Morning New; IRVING, Texas — All about the monastery cell lay scraps of Edmond Brophy and signs of Brother Lawrence. The quilt sewn up from Aggie patches, below white walls specked by crucifixes. The photo of a grinning mother, beside the portrait of a dead Hungarian vicar. And in… Read More ›

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Interview with God

The Interview With God Poem Perhaps you have seen it, perhaps not. But this video is worth watching at least once. The video follows below the poem. I dreamed I had an interview with God. “So you would like to interview me?” God asked. “If you have the time” I said. God smiled. “My time… Read More ›

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