Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

Tag: Thomas Aquinas

My prayers are so distracted! Are they worth anything?

Believe it or not, it was St. Thomas Aquinas who taught me not to lose hope when I lose my train of thought Do you know how many times I’ve opened my Bible or a spiritual reading book only to momentarily be summoned back into family life? Then when I do manage to escape the… Read More ›

Share

Holy Fear

Catholic Exchange. April 18, 2015: We find in the writings of the great mystics, especially of those who have been recognized as “Doctor of the Church,” a certain unanimous consent concerning the importance of holy fear if we are to grow in our life of prayer. They have a sense that it is a fearful… Read More ›

Share

Wonderful Banquet!

Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men gods. Moreover, when he took our flesh he dedicated the whole of its substance to our salvation. He offered his body to God the Father… Read More ›

Share

Prayer Before Study

Ineffable Creator who, from the treasures of Your wisdom, have established three hierarchies of angels, have arrayed them in marvelous order above the fiery  heavens, and have marshaled the regions of the universe with such artful skill, You are proclaimed the true font of light and wisdom, and the primal origin raised high beyond all… Read More ›

Share

Joseph, Husband of the Virgin Mary

7. … The Son of Mary is also Joseph’s Son by virtue of the marriage bond that unites them: “By reason of their faithful marriage both of them deserve to be called Christ’s parents, not only his mother, but also his father, who was a parent in the same way that he was the mother’s… Read More ›

Share