Category: Saints
From Mount Tabor to Calvary and the Empty Tomb: The Apostle Peter Offers Hope to Those Suffering Shame and Grief after Abortion
Jesus saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they...
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Your Weakness Is My Gift to You
For after all these years, I am still at the beginning.
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A Brother Said, “Be Aware.”
Over the years, retreat masters, abbots, and those who I went to for spiritual-direction would...
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Surprised by Grace in a Roman Confessional
Through this elderly priest, I received guidance I did not expect and grace that comforted and strengthened me and healed the wounds of my heart and soul.
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Fr. Philippe on the Beatitudes – “The Eight Doors of the Kingdom”
To free ourselves from anger, we must trust God and forgive the debts that we believe others owe us.
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Rogier van der Weyden’s Mary Magdalene: A Pictorial Meditation for Lent
The effect overall might be understood as a movement from self-display to self-effacement, and, indeed, one might easily plot Mary’s history, what we gather about it, in exactly that way.
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Christmas Is Also for the Unborn!
Our Christmas cannot be complete until we join in the great effort to end the oppression of the unborn once and for all. In the merciful and loving example of our Lord, let us make room for them, too.
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Armoring Your Children from the World: St. Theophan’s “A Path to Salvation”
Without armor, during their years in school, your children will be bullied into accepting views contrary to Christian belief.
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Illness as Blessing and Opportunity: Jean-Claude Larchet’s “The Theology of Illness”
Health actually can be bad for us when we misuse our healthy bodies. While the Fathers teach that illness is not a source of evil, they point out that some vices are the source of our illnesses.
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Divine Destiny: Jean-Claude Larchet on the Church Fathers and the Human Body
While our culture is obsessed with the body, it cannot be said to love the body.
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St. John Chrysostom Counsels St. Olympia About Her Despondency
Despondency, St. John Chrysostom tells her, “is a continual executioner that not only tears in pieces one’s torso but also mutilates the strength of one’s soul. It is a continuous night, darkness with no light.”
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Saints Stephen and Philip: What Deacons Should Be
The inclusion of the experiences of Stephen and Philip in Sacred Scripture tells us much about what the early Church thought about the role of deacons outside of liturgy
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