Etheldredasplace

My images for the understanding of gifts are four saints. Bear with me as I examine their lives to show the difference in "gifting...

So, how to we come to know what our gifts are without paying for weeks of intense self-centeredness? 1. The first route to knowing one...

The graces given to us at baptism give Catholics tremendous power to deal with spiritual problems. As the CCC notes, baptism is the gat...

Mark 16:9-15 Douay-Rheims  9  But he rising early the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalen, out of whom he had cast...

Garrigou-Lagrange's explanation sounds like a summary of all the posts of mine on the virtues. Of course, Aquinas provides us with most...

Ephesians 1:15-18  Douay-Rheims  15  Wherefore I also, hearing of your faith that is in the Lord Jesus, and of your love towards all the ...

Today's second reading, from Ephesians, reveals the mystery of God's Church as the New Chosen People. Looking at the beginning of ...

The Old Testament reading for today's Mass is from the 24th Chapter of Ecclesiasticus. The entire chapter is here below repeated in ord...

One of the great lies coming from the pulpits and in the institutions of the modern Church seems to be this idea that we are all equal in ...

I have set forth the definitions of discernment by Garrigou-Lagrange earlier this week and followed up those posts with these on false appar...

Perfection comes with a price. This price is suffering. This suffering helps one discern and allows one to endure the Dark Night before comi...