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Let Us Exercise Our Desire in Prayer
From a letter to Proba by St. Augustine: Why in our fear of not praying as we should, do we turn to so many things, to find what we should pray for? Why do we not say instead, in the words of the...
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Being Lead to Holiness
I have a way of thinking that everything happens for a reason, maybe its my inner Locke and Eloise. Today I had a 5-hour meeting with representatives from all the NDUS campuses. I knew one of the...
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Posture at Mass
After the homily at each of the Sunday Masses for the last few weeks, the priests at St. Anne’s have been giving short talks about the different parts of the new translation of the Mass to help the...
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St. Faustina on Prayer
Prayer. — A soul arms itself by prayer for all kinds of combat. In whatever state the soul may be, it ought to pray. A soul which is pure and beautiful must pray, or else it will lose its beauty; a...
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Evil Comes from Within not from Without
I’ve been having to confront my own nature a lot, all of my flaws and struggles. I’ve come to realize that when I changed from Protestant to Catholic, I overcorrected. I went from a concept of total...
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Creating a Desert of Prayer
In a recent post I mentioned that “we must air our hearts out, hang them up to dry in a desert of prayer that it may become sanctified.” I realize that this image may not make sense because we often...
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Creating a Desert of Prayer 2
So what does a desert of prayer look like? What should I do once I’ve gotten away from the world? Well there isn’t really one single way of praying. However, there are some really good ways of praying....
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Saying Grace
A little kick in the buttinski tonight at dinner. Went to the Cracker Barrel with a few of my coworkers and some res lifers from other schools in the state including some beautiful and familiar faces...
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The Prayer of the Church Venerates the Heart of Jesus
The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Sacred Heart of Jesus. This occurs in two ways. The first is that in a general way, the movements of the Spirit within the Church causes her members to...
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Waiting or Loving?
I read a blog post not too long ago that I had seen on someone’s Facebook. It was about Christianity’s mentality about waiting for sex, specifically for women. A lot of youth groups or young adult...
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Perfection of the Rosary
I might dare to say that the Rosary is the perfect prayer for the Christian to pray, that is, besides the Mass. Of course, there is no objective standard against which to measure the perfection of...
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Being Honest in Prayer
Confession is one of the places that I truly find peace. And the two or three priests who are primarily my Confessors are excellent, not only in their compassion, but also in their pastoral care. One...
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The Fourth Mansion: Part 2
To continue through the Fourth Mansion. So much time is put into differentiating between sweetness and consolation in prayer. Evidently, both are good, but one is better, and it is important to know...
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The Diet of God
If any of you regularly pray the Liturgy of the Hours and pray the Office of Readings, you will know that today’s Biblical reading (for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time) was the first chapter of the...
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Seven Quick Takes Monday
—1— As promised, at my holy hour during the 24 hours of mercy this weekend, I offered up all of my readers and everyone who has ever commented on my blog, even those I have banned. I prayed for your...
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Praying Our Own Gethsemane
Tonight is Holy Thursday. After the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, we will have the opportunity to enter into the mystery of Gethsemane, either through Eucharistic Adoration, or by our private prayers at...
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