Yesterday I got ‘Induction to the Spiritual Life’ by Brant Pitre.

I just opened it at random as I took a quick break in the chapel in between doing rounds in the hospital. I just opened at random, and this thought is worth sharing..

‘Consider the words of the fourth-century writer John Chrysostom..

‘Therefore.. let us collect money in the home for the explicit purpose of almsgiving…In this manner, therefore, let everyone’s house become a church that will have sacred money stored up within it. Whenever money is stored up for the poor, that place is inaccessible to demons; and the money that is collected together for almsgiving fortifies Christian homes more than a shield, spear, weapon, physical power, multitudes of soldiers.’

Many people ask me to bless there homes because they think their homes are haunted.

This seems like beautiful advice. When our homes become places where the poor are blessed demons have to flee..

Our homes become a domestic church..