Something for Sunday Morning
“Meekness above all makes men masters of themselves.” St. Thomas Aquinas
Religion
Something for Sunday Morning
“Pray with great confidence, with confidence based upon the goodness and
infinite generosity of God and upon the promises of Jesus Christ. God is a
spring of living water which flows unceasingly into the hearts of those who
pray.” St. Louis de Montfort
Wednesday
If Catholics led the good life that I see in my Mormon acquaintances, there
would be no other churches. If we could just combine the Mormon goodness that
its members exhibit (leavened with a little bit of wine) and combine it with
Catholic theology, we'd have a real
Something for Sunday Morning
“The human will can be protected from sin only when the reason is preserved from
ignorance and error.” St. Thomas Aquinas
Something for Sunday Morning
“Each person is like that which he loves.” St. Augustine
Something for Sunday Morning
"Pain allows us to accompany Christ on the cross. Suffering and contradiction
purify us. . . Let is not abandon the cross by grumbling and moaning,
complaining or giving in to sadness." Francis Fernandez
Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Piety and Death
"It is difficult to fear death if one is very pious."
Alas, KL has made me take spiritual stock of myself again. I never used to fear
death, and then I had children. I then came to fear death . . . for their sake.
Of course. And
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The Robotic Soul
"There is little doubt that atheism, agnosticism, and the denial of the other
world are partially responsible for the rapid technological development which
gave us, apart from exquisite instruments for mass destruction, various means to
bridge time and space. . . Ortega y Gassets points out very adroitly
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Medieval Man
"Medieval man (like every deeply religious man) was eschatologically static. To
him time was a relative conception because his center--God--stood at the same
distance to the year 1300 B.C. as to the year A.D. 1300."
The medieval man appeals to me, especially since I&
Something for Sunday Morning
"All our learning should consist of finding out what God has planned for us at
each moment." de Caussade, Abandonment.