In this timeless post from the archives, Dr. Peter Kreeft offers sure advice on developing your prayer life. Let’s get very, very basic and very, very practical about prayer. The single most important piece of advice I know about prayer is also the simplest: Just do it! How to do it is less important than just doing it. Less-than-perfect prayer is infinitely better […]
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The Freedom of Love
There has been a great deal of talk for many years now about individual rights in our society. It is nothing new, but this idea does seem to have reached a fever pitch in the past few years. People are demanding their right to do as they please. Everyone is demanding to be free. Unfortunately, many people are working with […]
As Time Goes By
I have a dear friend who was just placed in Hospice Care. I will call her Bernice, in order to keep her identity private. Bernice is a member of a devoted Carmelite Prayer Community. Bernice has been a member for about seven years, and she is in her mid-80s. About two years ago Bernice became very ill and nearly passed […]
Freed and Healed to Love through Prayer
Every single minute we spend with our knees bent and our heads bowed in prayer, we literally release ourselves from the bondage and burden of this earthly life. Thanks be to God. This release is best described as a healing of anything that impedes our ability to love. Think of what a gift prayer can be for the human soul. Do you […]
Love and… Responsibility?
It is routinely pointed out that about half of all marriages end in divorce. But what is not often discussed is the other half of the equation: the marriages that don’t break up. Are those marriages thriving? Do married couples that stay together feel truly close to one another? Do they achieve true, lasting, personal intimacy? The picture on this […]
Daily Quote — from Dr. Donald DeMarco
“Fidelity is not contrary to freedom . . . The marriage vow, expressed by the words ‘I do’, represents a gift of self that is freely given. Moreover, it implies a continuing renewal over the course of a lifetime.” (Dr. Donald DeMarco, The Heart of Virtue) Please share on social media. Print this entry
Lesson One in Prayer
Let’s get very, very basic and very, very practical about prayer. The single most important piece of advice I know about prayer is also the simplest: Just do it! How to do it is less important than just doing it. Less-than-perfect prayer is infinitely better than no prayer; more perfect prayer is only finitely better than less perfect prayer. Nancy Reagan was criticized […]
Daily Quote — from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“…from every mountainside, let freedom ring . . . When we let freedom ring—when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands […]
Daily Catholic Quote — from Dr. Donald DeMarco
“Fidelity is not contrary to freedom . . . The marriage vow, expressed by the words ‘I do’, represents a gift of self that is freely given. Moreover, it implies a continuing renewal over the course of a lifetime.” (Dr. Donald DeMarco, The Heart of Virtue) Please share on social media. Print this entry
Daily Catholic Quote — from the Catechism
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“The more one does what is good, the freer one becomes. There is no true freedom except in the service of what is good and just. The choice to disobey and do evil is an abuse of freedom and leads to the slavery of sin.” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶1733) Please share on social media. Print this entry