Category: Saints

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From Mount Tabor to Calvary and the Empty Tomb: The Apostle Peter Offers Hope to Those Suffering Shame and Grief after Abortion

by Kevin Burke | Apr 3, 2020 | abortion, Catholic Church, Culture, Faith, Featured, Saints, Spirituality | 1 |

Jesus saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they...

Your Weakness Is My Gift to You

by Brother Mark Dohle | Dec 16, 2019 | Featured, Saints, Spirituality | 0 |

For after all these years, I am still at the beginning.

A Brother Said, “Be Aware.”

by Brother Mark Dohle | Mar 11, 2019 | Featured, Saints | 0 |

Over the years, retreat masters, abbots, and those who I went to for spiritual-direction would...

Surprised by Grace in a Roman Confessional

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | May 14, 2018 | Catholic Church, Eastern Church, Featured, Saints, Spirituality | 0 |

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.

Fr. Philippe on the Beatitudes – “The Eight Doors of the Kingdom”

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | May 2, 2018 | Books, Eastern Church, Featured, Saints | 0 |

To free ourselves from anger, we must trust God and forgive the debts that we believe others owe us.

Rogier van der Weyden’s Mary Magdalene: A Pictorial Meditation for Lent

by Carl C. Curtis | Feb 14, 2018 | Culture, Featured, Saints | 3 |

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.

Christmas Is Also for the Unborn!

by Father Frank Pavone | Dec 22, 2017 | Christmas, Featured, Saints | 0 |

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.

Armoring Your Children from the World: St. Theophan’s “A Path to Salvation”

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Dec 4, 2017 | Books, Eastern Church, Faith, Featured, Psychology, Saints, Spirituality | 0 |

Without armor, during their years in school, your children will be bullied into accepting views contrary to Christian belief.

Illness as Blessing and Opportunity: Jean-Claude Larchet’s “The Theology of Illness”

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Nov 18, 2017 | Books, Eastern Church, Faith, Featured, Psychology, Saints, Spirituality | 0 |

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.

Divine Destiny: Jean-Claude Larchet on the Church Fathers and the Human Body

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Oct 28, 2017 | Books, Catholic Church, Eastern Church, Featured, Marriage, Saints, Scripture, Spirituality | 1 |

While our culture is obsessed with the body, it cannot be said to love the body.

St. John Chrysostom Counsels St. Olympia About Her Despondency

by Rev. Kevin Bezner | Oct 11, 2017 | Bishops, Eastern Church, Faith, Featured, Saints | 0 |

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.”