Etheldredasplace

Here is a long quotation from Garrigou-Lagrange on the virtues. I shall make a list of all forty of the virtues we are to develop in our ...

I am very concerned about some Catholic parents, most likely not anyone who reads this blog, who have decided that their home schooled gi...

Etheldredasplace: Perfection Series II:x 30 Jan 2014 Continuing the series on perfection, I have switched temporarily from Garrigou-L...

How very pleasing to God is the willing desire to suffer for Him. "Very pleasing to Me, dearest daughter, is the willing desire to b...

Well, my tech adviser, STS, has decided that my readers will be able, being so trained in arcane words, to follow a new blog called  Recu...

Lord, teach me to be generous. Teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not to heed the wounds...

I want to share a bit more from the book, Prayer and Intelligence.  This holy couple gives advice to the laity who are caught up in the...

This little book, which I bought many, many years ago at a second-hand bookstore, supplies the wisdom of the great spiritual writers is a ...

"Without contemplation, no great advance will be made in virtue and we shall never be able to help others towards it. Without conte...

P rayer is simplicity and purity of mind reaching up to God and allowing Him to just Be with us. Too often, many things, thoughts, people ...

, from the Maritains, some words on purification and prayer--""Contemplation is the fruit of the indwelling of the Blessed Trin...

For centuries, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church have likened the two wives of Jacob to the active or contemplative life. In modern time...

This quotation is so beautiful, I just have to share it with you..... From the same little book I have been using for the past few days, P...

Heard this one while blogging in the evening on Sunday. And, my friend has these in her backyard...

Four of the most common pitfalls of those who follow Christ into the Dark Nights of the Senses and Spirit, and even moving into the Illumi...

The theological virtues help us practice the moral virtues. But, the Maritains point out that there is a hierarchy of virtue. Faith ...

I first learned about devolution from two men-one a major in the Army and the other a famous Catholic priest. They talked about the growing ...