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Articles:How to Pray - Rev C. John McCloskeyIt's fully possible for the ordinary layperson to have an intense life of prayer, indeed even being a mystic, while at the same faithfully fulfilling their obligations in the world. Read more... How To Read Scripture Like Jesus And The Apostles - Steven KellmeyerWe don't need to be ancient language scholars in order to read Scripture as Jesus and the apostles did; we need only a good translation and an ear for the four-fold sense. Read more... How to Read the Prophets - Tim GrayWhen we think of prophets we immediately think of predictions about the future. Surely this is a part of the prophetic tradition in Scripture, as God reminds Ezekiel. However, there is much more to the meaning and message of the prophets than simply future predictions. Read more... How to Receive the Eucharist - Rev. Adrian J. Parcher, O.S.B.Often in modern liturgy, the sense of reverence, of dignity, of awe, seems to have disappeared. Read more... Human Freedom - John F. CrosbyAny philosopher who takes man seriously as person is sure to affirm the freedom of persons. There are, of course, no lack of philosophers who deny freedom, but none of them ever makes a point of saying that human beings are persons. Personhood and freedom are inseparable. In his personalism, Pope John Paul II has much to say about freedom, just as we would expect. Read more... Humble Confidence - Rev. Jean C. J. d'ElbeéYou must believe in the love of Jesus for you. Love calls for love. How do you give Jesus love for love? Before all and above all, by your confidence in Him. Read more... Humility - Donald DeMarcoThe humble person makes a realistic assessment of who he is and puts that unillusioned judgment into practice. He does not judge himself to be smaller or larger than he really is. In so doing he avoids despair as well as pride. Consequently, the humble person enjoys the freedom to be who he is. Read more... Humor - Donald DeMarcoPope John Paul II is a living testament to the fact that holiness and humor are not mutually exclusive. There are sunny spots in the human heart which allow humor to be given and to be received. Good humor is sometimes the doctor's best medicine, and at other times, the Pope's best homily. Read more... In a Time of War - First Things (The Editors)Bernard Lewis of Princeton, one of the most astute students of Islam, has long been urging us to understand that, when Muslims speak of the West, they mean the Christian West. They mean Christendom. Many in the West want to believe that ours is a secularized culture, but Lewis reminds us that most Muslims view secularization itself as a form of specifically Christian decadence. More and more, as this war continues, we may come to recognize that we are, however ambiguously, who they think we are, namely, the Christian West. Read more... In Defense of Feelings - Alice von HildebrandAnyone acquainted with the history of philosophy knows that many of the great thinkers have looked down upon feelings. Fleeting, unreliable, misleading, they're fraught with danger and must be kept carefully in check. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ... [>>] Related Categories:
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