With the whole debate about whag Pope Francis said ‘ … on his recent trip.. while his words can be taken as indifferentism.. can in Charity be understood this way.. I am reminded...
Grace
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Still. some more thoughts on fasting
“The fast of Lent has no advantage to us unless it brings about our spiritual renewal. It is necessary while fasting to change our whole life and practice virtue. Turning away...
More Thoughts on Fasting
I might be the last person you expect to give some reflection on fasting. It is clear that fasting is not one of my strength, but I am working on it. At a recent retreat at meal...
Fasting Lent
This morning for the closing prayer the priest prayed these words, “That our Lenten fast may be pleasing to you and be for us a healing remedy.” Father Charles M. Murphy in his...
Vatican 2 Pope Benedict
I am now reading ‘How the Catholic Church can Restore our Culture ‘ by Archbishop Ganswein.. Pope Benedict was a man of the second Vatican Council.. It is often said that Vatican...
Thought for the day
I am reading ‘The Art of Living the Cardinal Virtues and the Freedom to Love ‘by Edward Sri.. We all know sins like adultery, missing mass for no good reason can be mortal. But I...
Oil and Blessing
I am finishing a book ‘The Stripping of the Altars’ by Eamon Duffy. It details traditional religion in England 1400 to 1580. I am on the chapter ‘the attack on Traditional...
Reading a Fulton Sheen book
Read this on chapter on Anger ‘If we met ourselves in others, we would hate them.’ What He is saying that we are quick to judge others in anger because we don’t see the same sin...
A thought
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...
New year with Fulton Sheen
As I was reading this book.. thinking I have enough attention to read two more pages.. what do I read.. Futon Sheen.. I want to say ‘Blessed ‘ Because in my mind he is.. on this...