Divine Scripture is the feast of wisdom, and the individual books are the various dishes.                                           ...

Spiritual joy  is a serenity of temper in the changes of life,  such as a mountain has when a storm breaks over it. To a man w...

"When you pray, go to your room, close your door, and pray to your Father in private.  Then your Father, Who sees what no man sees,...

"Take no notice of that feeling you get of wanting to leave off in the middle of your prayer, but praise the Lord for the desire yo...

"Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones.  God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer.... D...

"These little daily acts of charity, this headache, toothache or cold, this bad humor in a husband or wife, this broken glass, ...

Sometimes I can't make sense at all of the world around me.  At times, it seems I'm just wandering about aimlessly.  Of course I...

"When He finds a soul penetrated with a lively faith,  He pours into it His graces and favors plentifully. There they flow like ...

I once heard Dr. Scott Hahn say, regarding echoes of Truth throughout the Old and New Testaments, that “history does not repeat itself, b...

The following is something I have a hard time describing, but I find it important enough that I'm going to give it a try. I think we...

"The worst thing that can befall persons who have good will is to want to be what they cannot be and not want to be what they ne...

"Americans, God has given you a great country....    Be not unworthy of Heaven's confidence."                       ...

This is my first attempt at "blogging inside the lines," (in other words, according to an outline... more or less..).  I'...

"The whole realm of nature is his who has God for his Portion."                (St. Ambrose) (public domain phot...

"God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down;  when the road seems dreary and...

William Paxton "The Housemaid"  In US public domain "It all depends on our intention, by which we can sanctify the least ...

Last night I had what I would call an "awakening." Feeling that I've given too little time to God over the course of my life...

The shop was long and narrow, dimly lit by naked bulbs dangling from the ceiling. It was a shadowed, solemn, wondrous place, tucked away i...

Bunny is six.  My oldest grandchild, born one and a half minutes ago (it seems to me), born so petite that she needed preemie clothes, ...

"I need  the closest possible union with Jesus,  as if I were spending my whole life before  His tabernacle...  ...