Etheldredasplace

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/europe-a-land-without-love I taught ancient Greek and Roman History. My students loved the stories of...

Having died to that which held us prisoners, we are discharged from the law. Let us serve God, then, in a new way, the way of the spirit, in...

Sometimes, a person, like me, can read the same passages daily or weekly from Scripture, such as the psalms in Lauds, and just "read...

Just the other day, I was meditating on the life of David, who is one of my favorite persons in the Old Testament. His heart, it is said, wa...

In the Illuminative State, two things happen. One is that new energies, wisdom, infused knowledge and goodness pour forth from the stre...

Psalm 22 Douay-Rheims  22  A psalm for David. The Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing. 2  He hath set me in a place of pastur...

I write a lot about King David. He, like the other saints, reached the heights of union with God and reveals so much of this love through ...

The glorious teaching of the Catholic Church shows us that we all have the gift of reason. The CCC is, again, a good place to start. As hum...

Well, at least for a long while...I shall take a break from discussing the Dark Night. But, in this last post, let me note what St. John of ...

As mentioned before in the perfection series, St. David himself is an example of one who knew this movement of the Holy Spirit. John of the...