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All Saints Day is here. Rejoice! There's hope for all of us. Sainthood isn't just for those canonized. The Francises, Theresas, and other show-offs. Today, we celebrate all those saints we don't know about: everyone in heaven that isn't canonized. Go

Jesus is the same today as He was in the Gospels (Heb 13:8). He is full of pity, mercy, and compassion for You (see Ps 103:8). You may be in a desert now (Ps 126:4), but Jesus can turn even the hottest desert into a place of

> The senses, the memory, and the imagination must be guarded, not only against things which are a direct temptation to sin, but against everything which may engage the mind in passing interests when it should be bent upon the unseen realities. Ths intellect too must be called off from

Knock me over with a feather: There could be something good about those Biblical injunctions to obey the Sabbath: > Two economists examined the effect of repealing “blue laws”–regulations banning certain retail activity on Sundays–on church attendance in the sixteen states that have done away with such laws

Over at Chesterton and Friends [http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11415684&postID=116022189358112307], a commentator posted links about Muslims converting to Christianity after Jesus appeared to them in dreams [http://www.amightywind.com/fastfood/dreams/040723muslimdreams.htm]. Maybe I'm behind the curve, but this is

This might be the best week of the year for saints: October 1 (or 3): St Therese [http://www.ewtn.com/therese/therese.htm] October 2: All Angels [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07050a.htm] October 4: St. Francis [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=50] October

> The measure of our advancement in the spiritual life should be taken from the progress we make in the virtue of mortification; for it should be held as certain that the greater violence we shall do ourselves in mortification, the greater advance we shall make in perfection. St. Jerome

It's St. Vincent's [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=326] feast day. By coincidence, I was talking with my daughter Abbie last night about charity toward the poor, and I tried to explain to her the difference between the "relatively poor"

"I have made a pact with my tongue; not to speak when my heart is disturbed." St. Francis de Sales