Tag: conversion
Take from Me …
Take from me, O Lord, my heart of stone. Take away my hardened heart. Take away my uncircumcised heart. Give me a new heart, a heart of flesh, a pure heart! You who purify the heart, you who love the pure heart, possess my heart and dwell within it, enclosing it and filling it, higher… Read More ›
Sin and Compulsions: An Inner Tyranny
People who sin because of their compulsions are not having much fun, nor is their life spectacularly fulfilling. They may experience relief or temporary gratification of one sort or another, but fundamentally they are unfree. In a sense they are non-persons. They are being driven by their passions, both conscious and unconscious. Whatever they may… Read More ›
Catholics to Honor St. John Vianney 150 Years after His Death
CNA STAFF, Aug 2, 2009 / 02:16 pm (CNA).- On Tuesday, August 4, the Church will celebrate the feast day of St. John Vianney, patron of priests. This day will mark the 150th anniversary of the saint’s death and comes during the newly-begun Year for Priests. John Vianney, also known as the Holy Curé de… Read More ›
In Search of Truth
Man’s quest for meaning leads to monastic life CHARLOTTE, NC, March 20, 2009 (The Catholic News and Herald) – Rodney Odom’s journey to Catholicism began in the main library of Philadelphia about seven years ago. He was Christian by birth, but had abandoned religion. Then, a general interest in spiritualism ignited his quest. “In my… Read More ›
New Year’s Resolutions
We all learned the Ten Commandments growing up. Most people will remember “Thou shall not kill,” and “Thou shall not steal.” But according to a survey conducted by Kelton Research, more Americans remember the ingredients of a McDonald’s Big Mac than the Ten Commandments. Suppose we agree to make one resolution; if we do not… Read More ›
The Monastic Way of Conversion
Lecture given by Armand Veilleux, OCSO at the American Benedictine Academy in 1984 and published in The American Benedictine Review (37:1, March 1986, 34-45) The monastic call is ultimately a call to unity. And that unity can only be reached through a long journey implying successive deep transformations, that is, through a long conversion process…. Read More ›
God Bowed His Heavens and Came Down
“Created as we were to the image and the likeness of the Creator, we fell through our sin from God into ourselves, and fell from ourselves beneath ourselves into such an abyss of unlikeness that no hope was left. But there came the Son of God, eternal Wisdom; he bowed his heavens and came down…. Read More ›