Tag: life
St. John Climacus
After 20 Catecheses dedicated to the Apostle Paul, today I would like to return to presenting the great writers of the Church of the East and of the West in the Middle Ages. And I am proposing the figure of John known as Climacus, a Latin transliteration of the Greek termklimakos, which means of the… Read More ›
St. Padre Pio’s 5 Point Rule of Life
When we think of great mystics and wonder-working saints, we often think of those who lived centuries ago. Yet, St. Pio of Pietrelcina was both a mystic and a performer of many miracles—and he died in 1968, only 46 years ago. In many ways, this saint was and is a contradiction to our scientific, rational… Read More ›
A bowl of marbles: Journaling (part 1)
Sometimes when I set down to write, it is more as act of faith than anything, for there are mornings when I have no idea what I am going to journal about. I don’t think it is writer’s block, which is obvious that is something I don’t have; it’s just there is so much churning… Read More ›
Life is good (aside from all the crap)
Theodicy is the discipline that seeks to understand the reason for so much suffering in the world. To say that human life is often tragic and filled with loss, pain and mourning is so obvious that it need not be said. Yet lots of paper is spent on seeking to understand this reality. There are… Read More ›
Messy package is life
Life is funny and difficult and wrapped up in one messily garlanded package. It will stay that way for the most part, for things, or let’s say people will not fall into neatly lined up categories or stereotypes. Being a caregiver is a good way to learn about that reality. In everyday life a lot… Read More ›
Alabama Supreme Court recognizes unborn as ‘children’
Washington D.C., Jan 15, 2013 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An Alabama Supreme Court decision recognizing the unborn as persons deserving of legal protections could have significant implications in ending abortion in the U.S., say pro-life advocates. “The Alabama Supreme Court has dealt a massive blow to the constitutional fraud of Roe v. Wade by… Read More ›
Cardinal Dolan contrasts true freedom, ‘culture of death’ in new eBook
New York City, N.Y., Jun 19, 2012 / 04:07 am (CNA).- Society faces a choice between true human dignity, and a false concept of freedom culminating in the “culture of death,” New York’s Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan explains in his new eBook. This inhumane culture springs from “deeply rooted social, philosophical, and ethical tendencies that,… Read More ›
Life of St. Benedict
The Oblates have been studying the Life of St. Benedict. A pdf copy of the classic work written by St. Gregory can be downloaded from this site for the use at the meetings. The original source is of the document is from the Christian Classics Etheral Library which also has epub copies compatible with electronic book… Read More ›
Pilgrimage
If life in fact is really a pilgrimage, well what does that mean? It certainly does not mean that we will have it easy. However, how we respond to reality is important and has deep spiritual significance…. For in fact what makes us more self aware seems to come about when we suffer. I wish… Read More ›
God calls human persons to union with Himself
Whatever I may have written, I think it all can be reduced in the end to this one root truth: that God calls human persons to union with Himself and with one another in Christ, in the Church which is His Mystical Body. It is also a witness to the fact that there is and… Read More ›