11 Dec 2013
This means that God calls us into the desert, and a desert has few colors, few delights. St. John writes this: IT now remains to be said that, although this happy night brings darkness to the spirit, it does so only to give it light in ...
17 Feb 2013
Noting that it is for this reason that the Church traditionally proclaims the Gospel narrative of Christ's temptation in the desert on the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Benedict said, “The tempter is subtle: he does not push us directly ...
02 Jul 2014
When Moses had to flee from Egypt , into Sinai, he was not seeking God. He was being drawn to God by God. God was calling him to purgation and perfection. Purgation came in the long weeks in the desert, before he came ...
03 Nov 2013
The name El was the title of the desert god of many of the ancient religions. El was also the god of the storms. However, the One, True God took the name and made it His Own, the God of all Creation, the Father of all Mankind, ...
19 Feb 2013
The desert is hard. It is very hot in the day and very cold at night. Sand gets into one's skin, eyes, hair. It is full of dangerous animals. Water is scarce. One has to rely on God totally in the desert. He is our Guide, as we cannot ...
07 Jan 2014
The desert proved to be colder than Antonio anticipated. He had a day, a night and a morning to meet his priest, whose letter was one of the four in his pocket. Daniel Morales had written to the Nuncio of the terrible deaths of ...
02 Aug 2013
He says, then, thus: 'In the desert land, waterless, dry and pathless, I appeared before Thee, that I might see Thy virtue and Thy glory.'90 It is a wondrous thing that David should say here that the means and the preparation for ...
11 Feb 2014
St. John the Baptist went into the desert. So did Christ and St. Paul. Our homes can be "desert homes". Create a place where holiness and perfection can take root and grow. Without this, parents are cooperating with God to ...
11 Oct 2014
14 And they coveted their desire in the desert: and they tempted God in the place without water. 15 And he gave them their request: and sent fulness into their souls. 16 And they provoked Moses in the camp, Aaron the holy ...
30 May 2013
God is calling the soul to Himself and takes her out into the desert in order for her to see Him as He is and to love Him for Himself and not for what He can do for her. This is real free love, the love with is not attached to anything ...
19 Dec 2013
I want you to fly to a desert like S. Mary of Egypt, S. Paul, S. Anthony, Arsenius, or the other hermits, but it is well for you to retire sometimes within your own chamber or garden, or wheresoever you can best recollect your mind, ...
12 Dec 2013
18 I will open rivers in the high bills, and fountains in the midst of the plains: I will turn the desert into pools of waters, and the impassable land into streams of waters. 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, and the thorn, and ...
12 Feb 2013
On some occasions we read that the herald was God, for example, when with a living voice from heaven he gave the law of justice to a whole people in the desert. On other occasions, the herald was an angel of the Lord, ...
21 Sep 2014
[35] So again His Nativity in a lonely stable might find a foreshadowing in the owl of the desert, bemoaning and lamenting: and in His Ascension He was like the sparrow rising high above the dwellings of men. Thus in each of ...
20 Nov 2013
These types of reaction spreads like a cancer and results in murmuring, the great sin of the Israelites in the desert. Complaining creates a miasma of unfaithfulness and turns people to evil by doubting God's Divine Providence.
08 May 2014
26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying: Arise, go towards the south, to the way that goeth down from Jerusalem into Gaza: this is desert. 27 And rising up, he went. And behold a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch, ...
22 May 2014
They were walking in the rocky semi-desert land which lay behind Michael's new farm near Enna. He planned to turn it into a holiday farmhouse, but live there part of the year. The two were making plans when Christine found ...
01 May 2014
This is Christ, who hungered in the desert and was tempted but did not give in and was just. 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Christ was merciful on the Cross, forgiving all, so that we can be merciful.
09 Sep 2014
St. Zosimas met her and gave her Communion on the day she died, after she spent fifty years or so in the desert making reparation for her early life of serious sin. A lion helped St. Zosimas bury her body. She is a saint who ...
20 Oct 2014
And they are being taxed with the infidel tax. “The only pseudo-juridical instance in the desert is the Arab tribes' court that has levied a tax of 150,000 Egyptian pounds (about 21,000 USD) on the monks,”. Email ThisBlogThis!
07 Apr 2013
But, if I had to choose one book dealing with classical education to take to a desert island, it would be the Doctor of the Church St. Isidore of Seville's Etymologie. This work is a compilation of knowledge and definitions from the ...
30 Sep 2013
It must have been a very hot day in the desert. Jerome's supposed cardinal's robe is off his body and his hat on the wall. He was not a cardinal, nor would this dress been the norm in his day. However, the point is that Jerome ...
05 Oct 2014
26 If therefore they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert, go ye not out: Behold he is in the closets, believe it not. 27 For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west: so shall the coming of the ...
22 Jan 2013
Moses found God in the desert. God came to him unexpectedly. So, too, with us. 20 posts yesterday, and 22 today, plus the rest of the weekend is full as well. Take time to read these. We do not have much time to have this ...
12 Jun 2014
St. Angela writes that Christ's entire life was one of penance. This seems obvious after one points this out. God on earth must have suffered constantly. I was thinking last night, as I was suffering intensely, of the great Desert ...
18 Nov 2014
7 Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To day if you shall hear his voice,. 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation; in the day of temptation in the desert,. Since 2007, I have written about the coming persecution of real ...
