3.) Set a specific place where you can be undisturbed:It is important to find a place in your home where you can pray without anyone disrupting you and that may include a quiet place in your living room before anyone else wakes up in the morning. It can also include spending time in ...
This is the same spot as before. And it is really a “creeper” rather than an “ivy”. Or so I am told. Breakfast. I’ve been eating more protein in the mornings, but you have to have a cornetto in Rome once in a while. In the “You Had ONE Job!” Report. Internet ...
38 The Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus had not washed before eating. 39 So the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of your cup and plate, but inside you are full of violence and evil. 40 Fools! Did not God, who made the outside, al...
Saint Peter was recognized as the leader of the 12 disciples, and the Roman Catholic Church regards Peter as the first of its unbroken succession of Popes. History St. Peter, originally Simon Bar Jonah, was a Jewish fisherman called to follow Jesus as one of His first disciples. He lived ...
Francis de Sales’ great treatise on living a lay Catholic life, the Introduction to the Devout Life. It was the quote above that made me realize I was not consistently making resolutions and when I did they were too general. And while that persisted I was simply a hearer of the word. ...
Catholic theologian, Hans Kung And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake. Mark 13: 37 Waking up and becoming more and more conscious, aware, and alert are fundamental tasks of being a disciple and growing in faith and spiritual maturity. Some of us sleepyheads will resist such ...
As my daughter, Sara, neared the delivery of her first child three years ago, we made sure I arrived in St. Louis a few days before her due date. A few days turned into three weeks. The final stages of pregnancy are a trial–uncomfortable in every way. Images of beached whales come...
At times it reminded me of the rituals done by the catholic priests. But it was much deeper than that. One old man had a long white beard and an equally long and white head. He was the first I saw. Ana was moved by it and picked up her Bible and began her own prayers. We pray...
” But do not go out with them to look. 24 When lightning shines, it quickly makes the whole of the sky light from one side to the other. It will be like that on the day when the Son of Man returns. 25 But before this happens, the people of today will refuse to accept me. ...
But the Trinity is something I can actually get carried away by. Before I left for church I read the beautiful prayer to the Trinity byBlessed Elizabeth of the Trinity. Her prayer begins with these words,O my God, Trinity whom I adore; help me to forget myself entirely that I may be...