Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
“The times are never so bad but that a good man can live in them.” St. Thomas More Related PostsIn Christ Alone | Celtic Worship The Author’s Voice The Good, the Bad, and the Effeminate “Waking Up the Echoes:” Notre Dame Rosary Rally Continues Fr. Peyton’s Lifework The exceptional Catholic novelist behind the popular Downton … Read more
The Holy Spirit of discipline flees deceit and withdraws from senseless counsels. Wisdom 1:5 Related PostsI Left Catholicism Because of Church Scandals… You must first have peace in your own soul before you can make peace between other people. Radical Lives Matter – An Old, Old Story There Are Too Many Saviors on My Cross … Read more
Let us beware of complaints, resentments, and evil-speaking against those who are ill-disposed to us, discontented with us, or hostile to our plans and arrangements, or who even persecute us with injuries, insults, and calumnies. Rather let us go on treating them as cordially as at first, or more so, as far as possible showing … Read more
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. St. Thomas More God wishes us to be meek even toward ourselves. When a person commits a fault, God certainly wishes him to humble himself, to be sorry for his sin, and to purpose … Read more
Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something — let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached on the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, ‘Let us first … Read more
If you get lost through loving yourself, then of course you get found through denying yourself. St. Augustine If you get lost in loving yourself, you get found in denying yourself. Augustine for Today Related PostsSuffering and Weakness Humility Weaknesses of the Body Fulton Sheen’s Helpful Analogy For Discouraged Catholics The (Ir)religion of Man 2020
the Holy Spirit of discipline flees deceit and withdraws from senseless counsels Wisdom 1:5 Similar to “Never wrestle with pigs.“ Related PostsPost Ridicules Priest For Refusing To Abandon His Flock In A Pandemic, Then Getting Coronavirus St. Joseph This Is What Authentic Masculinity Looks Like | Into the Breach Are Spain’s Catholic Schools Still Catholic? … Read more
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks — AEI Annual Dinner 2017 We’ve seen the emergence of what I call a politics of anger. We have seen the culture of competitive victimhood. We have seen the emergence of identity politics based on smaller and smaller identities of ethnicity and gender. We’ve seen the new politics of … Read more
“O my God, you and you alone are all wise and all knowing! You know, you have determined everything that will happen to us from first to last. You have ordered things in the wisest way, and you know what will be my lot year by year until I die. You know how long I … Read more