This is the seventh in a series on St. Benedict for Beginners. – The Editors The First Step to Humility ‘The first step of humility is for a man to set the fear of God always before his eyes.’ We live today with a Jesus who is our friend and a God who is more [...]
Making Room for Our Lady One crucial theme in John’s Gospel can shed much light on Mary’s unique role in salvation history. This theme is so foundational that it will help us see how Mary becomes the “New Eve” and the spiritual mother of all Christians. Let’s look at this fundamental motif in the fourth [...]
“How can this be since I do not know man?” (Lk. 1:34) Mary has only one question for the angel Gabriel. And it’s a question that provides a beautiful window into Our Lady’s unique spiritual life, but one we might overlook if we don’t read the Annunciation account carefully: Mary says to the angel, “How [...]
Well, just recently I got an advanced copy of a survey that will come out in an edition of America Magazine pretty soon… Watch and listen to Fr. Barron’s commentary on “Why Catholics Leave the Church”…. Father Barron can be found on the Internet at: Word On Fire CATHOLICISM Please help us in our mission [...]
“When I am weak, then I am strong”; “power made perfect in weakness.” Such verses are often cited as key to spiritual growth, but do we really understand what they are talking about? Can anyone ever understand? Yes. If we couldn’t understand it at all, God would not have told it to us. God does [...]
This is the sixth in a series on St. Benedict for Beginners. – The Editors ‘We must do now what will profit us forever.’ The past is a memory and the future is a fear. The only reality is this present moment. Therefore it is in only in this moment that we can enjoy reality. [...]
Holy Week is a week where we are reminded of the inextricable link between humility and suffering. Christ’s passion radically embodies the surrendering of self-will to God’s-will, the hurt of unjust humiliation and the willingness to embrace the suffering of the cross. Suffering Towards and Not Away From Christ Every person experiences suffering during this [...]
“It is never true to say that we have no time to meditate; the less one thinks of God, the less time there will always be for God. The time we have for anything depends of how much we value it. Thinking determines the uses of time…” (Archbishop Fulton Sheen) As I pulled out of [...]
Why are teens today so obsessed with reading Harry Potter and Twilight? These book series take up two spots in the top favorite books of teenagers in Generation Y. If we examine some possible reasons for their massive success among the youthful generation, then we are reminded of how we can show young people that [...]
Most religions in the ancient world were local, national cults. The Egyptians worshiped Isis and Osiris. Athens was named after the goddess Athena. Ephesus was the center of the cult of Artemis. But when the Church was born on Pentecost Sunday, it was comprised of people of every nation under heaven who each heard the [...]
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St. Benedict for Beginners – The Third Step to Humility
This is the ninth in a series on St. Benedict for Beginners. – The Editors The Third Step to Humility ‘The third step of humility is that for the love of God a man should be obedient to his superior in all things.’ Obedience? What a sign of scandal in an individualistic age! The whole [...]
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