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I just talked to the Mother Prioress and she said something was missing in my absence. Sniff...but one cannot pretend to do what one canno...

I am writing to encourage the laity to a personal relationship with Christ which will lead each lay person to union with Christ. This is n...

I grew in a family which identified things in nature: we knew and still know the names of trees, flowers, both wild and cultivated, birds ...

Here is the quotation from St. Bernard of Clairvaux, from a homily of his at Easter. "We look for God where He is not to be found,...

Clarification on a simple point. Many Catholics do not understand the difference between a priest who is a member of an order and a secu...

I did not understand the phrase that love drives out fear until I experienced it. Now, as an intellectual, one would think that I could ...

First Thanksgiving Was Actually Catholic It Was a Traditional Latin Mass of Thanksgiving in St. Augustine, in 1565. Fifty five years ...

"Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You.’ Truly, I say to you, among those born of women...

Garrigou-Lagrange, Robert Hugh Benson, and many others insist that friendship with and in Christ is not only possible for the lay person,...

Robert Hugh Benson should be canonized, unless someone shows me an objection. His book The Friendship of Christ  indicates a spirituality ...

From the website Courageous Priest is this interesting list of quotations from Pope Benedict XVI for your perusal:  http://www.courageouspr...

O, wear your tribulation like a rose.....

An American notices dirt. Now, some of our Midwest towns and cities are very clean, with monies going to upkeep as civic pride is an importa...

By the way, I asked God what my real vocation was when I was in the monastery. Too simple, but my vocation is to be Supertradmum . And, p...

Bernard of Clairvaux's famous sermon on the meeting of Christ and Mary Magdalen in the Garden highlights the theme I have here and in...

The Church pastors tell us to join our sufferings to Christ. This is backwards. What am learning is that Christ joins His sufferings to o...

One form of the ascetic Christian life is called foolishness for the sake of Christ. The fool-for-Christ set for himself the task of battl...

If you are in debt, get out of debt. If you are not in debt, do not go into debt. The American government will demand payments for colle...

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