Etheldredasplace

Too many Catholics seek after consolations. Too many Catholics are apparitions chasers and experience chasers. Until a person stops lookin...

Today begins the greatest novena of all, to The Divine Mercy. Please take time to say this beautiful prayer. One more penance for your G...

Several weeks ago, I picked up three free booklets in the back of a church I was visiting. All three have out and out heresy and other error...

Raissa was called to be a contemplative in the world. Some of us seemed to be called to this. Such a life means that one moves from solit...

All of us are given graces in order to cooperate with God's call to holiness. First is the grace of conversion, which I have expl...

I am surrounded by people in the cities who do not believe in the Incarnation. They do not believe that the Second Son of the Blessed Trinit...

One forgets how young St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was when she died-43-and what sufferings she endured at home before she entered the conv...

One totally generous person shows us the way to practice reparation and that is Mary, Our Mother. Pope Pius XI labels her the "rep...

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S.Lewis is a book I taught for years at several colleges and universities, as well as in home schoo...

Continuing with the theme of how does one know for whom or what to make reparation, I have one clear answer. This is a follow-up of II. Th...

Some readers are still confused on the life of the virtues. I recommend, again, the posts I have mostly referrencing Garrigou-Lagrange on th...

I want to end this section on the Unitive State by referring to a chapter, (41) from Garrigou-Lagrange. As usual, the priest's insigh...

Too many people assume or think even after study that the state of Union with God means that one has to have a complicated spiritual life...

Love, or charity, is the mark of the Unitive State. Perhaps some of you have met a person who is truly loving, kind, charitable, generous,...