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I have been verbally trying to deal with catechists and members of the new evangelization who keep making excuses for the ignorance of Iri...

God has called all baptized Catholics to the life of perfection. As most of us are baptized when babies, this means that the grace given i...

  In less than four weeks, we shall celebrate the Birth of the Incarnate God. I pray that all Christians this year remember the great po...

and, of course His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI's Prayer for Priests LORD JESUS CHRIST, eternal High Priest, you offered yourself...

Imagine going out with a friend on a cold winter's morning, and in the conversation, you said one, small lie. You realized it was a li...

Today in a different Carmelite Church, that on Clarendon Street, it was the memorial of two Carmelite priests martyred in Sumatra. Here i...

Poetry and song are the stuff of Christianity. The Psalms are sung daily by all the monastic orders and said by all priests and many lay p...

“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes hi...

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition  4  Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversel...

Thanks, Wiki Suarez continues his examination of the types of solitaries, and I felt a small bit of gratification in that he points ou...

I have been daily attending Mass at Whitefriar's in Dublin. No more. Today, an Irish priest used the word "cup" instead of cha...

Looking at Suarez and learning from my all too-brief time in the monastery, I am learning that contemplation is both a means and and end....

I shall try and trace the three stages of perfection in the Epistles of St. Paul. Before I do this, remind all , that is one disagrees with ...

Suarez has this idea that the apostles were religious before they were made clerics. What this means is that the apostles were living, or ...

To call something the active life or the contemplative life indicates the means to an end. The end is the same-oneness with God in heaven. ...

Next year, 2013, is the 900th year of the Founding of the Knights of Malta, the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, known as the Hospitallers....

I found this page on line which lists all the things, places and people for which St. Joseph is patron. Here is the link.  http://saints...

Cute fish day... Multiple post day and more to come tomorrow....

And, update  http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1127/breaking3.html selling out to the EU... http://www.irishtimes.com/ne...