Etheldredasplace

When you are around someone who seems "nice", and you get that icky feeling that they are using you for his or her own gratificat...

Part One was on the blog yesterday. http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2015/04/how-to-prepare-for-being-martyr.html No...

How do we know we have the virtue of humility or any virtues? In a superb chapter in Vol. II of Rodriguez, on pp. 184-186, the good pries...

Self-knowledge occurs in three places most commonly: in one's family, first of all, where one finds one's self living with those wh...

Welcome to the new world of Sodom and Gomorrah. Never before have the sins of abortion and ssm been made into laws. Even the Greeks and Rom...

Not a popular subject, but one I need to share before the persecution begins in earnest. Rodriguez is brilliant on this subject, being a s...

The good Jesuit notes that God does not need our gifts. I have always had a visceral repulsion to those gifting courses some Catholic ret...

A few weeks ago in prayer, an inspiration came to me that one could be completely freed from concupiscence. Now, I have never had a spiritua...