Religion

No, he's not against hard work. But he is against filling our lives with non-stop activity, something I've been guilty of for the past two months. Quoting St. Bernard Clairvaux: > "We have to guard ourselves, the saint observed, from the dangers of excessive

> For everyone who stands against God and is at war with Him is an enemy of God, even if he makes all men to be at peach with each other, for even as he makes them to be at peace with each other he does it in a way

Far out. It's Edith Stein's feast day. She's one of the best, even if I can't understand everything she wrote. She came to Catholicism via philosophy, and that always makes for some of the most interesting saints. Read more about her here

> If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven. St. John Vianney

> Britain's biggest theme park has called off the country's first "National Muslim Fun Day" because of lack of interest, the park said Wednesday [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2006-08-02T184048Z_01_L02862061_RTRUKOC_0_US-MUSLIMS-

> When a man is always occupied with the cravings of desire and ambition, and is eagerly striving to satisfy them, all his thoughts must be mortal, and, as far as is possible altogether to become such, he must be mortal every whit, because he has cherished his mortal part.

St. Therese Lisieux's deathbed explanation of remaining a little child before God: > It is to recognize our nothingness, to expect everything from God as a little child expects everything from its father; it is to be disquieted about nothing, having no other occupation but to gather the

This week's column at Catholic Exchange [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=33679]. Excerpt: > While on vacation, I flipped through Ian Lendler's Alcoholica Esoterica: A Collection of Useful and Useless Information as It Relates to the History and

"Worldly people have not the Holy Spirit, or if they have, it is only for a moment. The noise of the world drives him away." John Vianney