Season of Joy
“We think of Lent as a gloomy season: it is because we do not love God enough. The same thing has happened to our word sacrifice: we...
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- Dec 12, 2020
- 3 min
Light Extinguished
“The sanctuary light burning before the altar that you saw be extinguished has many meanings: "The first reason for the lamp being...
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- Nov 4, 2020
- 2 min
Helpless...
“I come to tell you that they suffer in Purgatory, that they weep, and that they demand with urgent cries the help of your prayers and...
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- Oct 25, 2020
- 5 min
Vocational "Mistakes"
“A young man once exclaimed to a friend, ‘Suppose I make a mistake! I could not bear the disgrace of leaving a religious order after...
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- Oct 7, 2020
- 4 min
Sorrow's Company (part II)
“Now, you know we are taught by St. Paul that the Father chose us before the foundation of the world. That means that we are chosen in...
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Acies
- Sep 23, 2020
- 5 min
Sorrow's Company (part I)
“Since Our Blessed Lord has set us out on our pilgrimage, it is inevitable that we should feel, all our lives, the discomforts...
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Acies
- Aug 27, 2020
- 6 min
Does Christ Want Me?
“Said a boy one day, ‘How in the world does a person ever know he is to be a priest?’ This little lad was a budding philosopher: he...
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Acies
- Jul 9, 2020
- 4 min
Your True Worth
“So in your life, when the divine seed is thrown into you, when this divine grace, this share of the divine life, is cast into you, do...
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- Mar 29, 2020
- 7 min
Profound Mystery
“The whole life on earth of God made man is profoundly mysterious: it is as full of mysteries as it is of days. In spite of assiduous...
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Acies
- Mar 11, 2020
- 6 min
Shadow of the Cross
“Numerous are the christians who experience a sense of relief as the liturgical cycle of the Passiontide and Holy Week passes away and...
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Acies
- Feb 27, 2020
- 4 min
Lenten Joy
“We think of Lent as a gloomy season: it is because we do not love God enough. The same thing has happened to our word sacrifice: we...
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Acies
- Feb 19, 2020
- 6 min
Fisher of Men
“It was indeed an exciting adventure. The crews shouted to each other, they congratulated one another, they calculated the value of their...
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- Feb 5, 2020
- 2 min
Weep Not For Me
“If you love me, do not weep. If you only knew the gift of God and what Heaven is! If only you could hear the angels’ song from where you...
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Acies
- Jan 29, 2020
- 5 min
Into the Deep
“Do you remember our Lord’s words to Simon: Launch out into the deep? There is always a temptation to think of religion as something...
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Acies
- Jan 23, 2020
- 2 min
Emptiness
“Emptiness is a very common complaint in our days,, not the purposeful emptiness of the virginal heart and mind but a void, meaningless,...
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Acies
- Jan 8, 2020
- 3 min
What Are We For?
An Excerpt from Fr. Gerald Vann's "The Heart of Man"
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- Jan 1, 2020
- 5 min
Little Things
An excerpt from "No Abiding City", by Fr. Bede Jarrett, O.P.
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- Dec 5, 2019
- 3 min
The Eternal Evening
“If you live in the Church and try to use the power of the Church to increase the life of the Church, then the power of the Church will...
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