Something for Sunday Morning
"The saints are the true interpreters of Holy Scripture."
Benedict XVI
Topic
Religion
A collection of 877 issues
Monday
Tiger, Brit, and Kerouac
A lot of people are upset about Brit Humes' advice to Tiger Woods last week (
linked here at TDE [https://thedailyeudemon.com/12531/]). "Post media critic Tom Shales put
him in the category of a 'sanctimonious busybody' engaged in 'telling people
Something for Sunday Morning
“Modesty is praised in humans because it is not a matter of nature, but of
will.” Lactantius
Something for Sunday Morning
"When man begins to see and to live from God's perspective, when he is a
companion on Jesus' way, then he lives by new standards, and something of the
eschaton, of the reality to come, is already present." Benedict XVI.
Something for Sunday Morning
"According to many authors of spiritual books, progress in our life of piety
depends a good deal on our recognition and understanding of our dominant defect.
This is the defect that has the biggest influence on our behavior and thinking.
It typically becomes evident in what we do, what
Something for Sunday Morning
"Blessed are we when we know how to bring peace to the afflicted, when we serve
as instruments of unity of unity in our families, among our workmates and in all
those we meet in the course of our daily lives. To put this vitally important
commitment into practice,
Something for Sunday Morning
"Only the man who is reconciled with God can also be reconciled and in harmony
with himself, and only the man who is reconciled with God and with himself can
establish peace around him and throughout the world." Benedict XVI
The Wednesday Eudemon
You Offended Him?!
I find this story from yesterday's New York Post
[http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/dolan_gives_the_times_holy_hell_C79kb04ndK2nKWVWLO8O0K]
significant: "New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan has condemned The New York Times
-- blasting the Gray Lady and its columnist Maureen
Something for Sunday Morning
"[L]et us love, for love will give us everything." de Caussade, Abandonment to
Divine Providence.
BTW: Happy All Saints Day.
> Calling the saints to mind inspires, or rather arouses in us, above all else, a
longing to enjoy their company, so desirable in itself. We long
From the Notebooks
A hazy picture is beginning to emerge in my mind. The picture is this: America,
the Protestant Empire, has always been opposed to things Catholic. The
opposition used to be explicit: the KKK hated Catholics and Jews, as well as
blacks. In the twentieth century, such bigotry became unfashionable, so