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A young person who is interested in Catholic meditation asked me for an example. The Gospel of the day in America yesterday was the cha...

For the lay person, as well as for the monk, nun, or priest, daily reading of the Scriptures is an essential part of the life of the soul. ...

It breaks my heart when I go into a used book store and find books from defunct convents and orders of priests. If I had money and a place...

Rubens The Triumph of Divine Love Christ did say ask and you shall receive . We are to approach Divine Providence with our needs. So...

I was doing some research on Gibraltar and came across a fact which escaped me in 2009. Pope Benedict XVI gave the coveted Golden Rose to...

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...