Note from the Assistant Editor:
"The hindrances that prevent Jesus from uniting himself to our souls are disordered affections," writes Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez in our reflection. These disordered affections amount to nothing while the love of Christ amounts to everything: union with Him. See "As Many As Touched Him Were Healed."
We reprint the "Afterword" to Robert Cardinal Sarah's "The Power of Silence," penned by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. "Cardinal Sarah is a spiritual teacher, who speaks out of the depths of silence with the Lord, out of his interior union with him, and thus really has something to say to each one of us." The deep holiness of both these men is striking.
Then we have a really great piece from Fr. George Rutler: "Pentecost Was Not An Occasion for 'Enthusiasm.'" "Sensational outbursts of emotion were thought to be divinely inspired, and the formal clerical structure of the Church was caricatured as the sort of rigidity that quenches the spirit." This is an attitude that still exists today, but it is important to not confuse strong emotion with divine inspiration.
In "The Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity," Fr. Peter John Cameron asks us to imagine our ideal God. "We would want a god who was in love with us" and he already exists in Jesus, who shows us the Father and bestows on us the Holy Spirit.
The first in a series on conscience, in "Let's have a grown-up conversation about one's conscience," Fr. Robert McTeigue explains how we should understand the idea of the primacy of conscience. We have a duty to educate "ourselves about ethical norms, incorporating that knowledge into our daily lives, acting according to that knowledge, and taking responsibility for those actions."
Our final article is almost magical: "How to defuse a child's tantrum with one question." The key is to acknowledge your child's feelings, take the problem seriously (even if it seems silly to you), and enable them to find a solution. Good advice for conflicts in general.
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Hale |
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man ... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone." C.S. Lewis
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New Resources
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As Many As Touched Him Were Healed - Servant of God Luis Maria Martinez - from Worshipping a Hidden God, Unlocking the Secrets of the Hidden Life
Have we not felt from time to time that some barrier stands between Jesus and our heart?
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Afterword - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI - from The Power of Silence Against the Dictatorship of Noise
Ever since I first read the Letters of Saint Ignatius of Antioch in the 1950s, one passage from his Letter to the Ephesians has particularly affected me: "It is better to keep silence and be than to talk and not to be."
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World Loses a Great Storyteller - Father Raymond J. de Souza - National Post
Almost 60 years ago, a 6-foot-4 basketball player at Princeton was told by his coach, "You write basketball better than you play it."
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The Mystery of the Most Holy Trinity - Father Peter John Cameron, O.P. - Magnificat
If you look into your heart and consider the kind of god you deem ideal, what you come up with is Jesus.
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"Know Thyself" - Randall B. Smith - The Catholic Thing
One problem with the admonition "Know Thyself" is that we already live in a self-obsessed society.
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Editorials of Interest:
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Editorials of Interest
Pope Francis: Shepherds are not the centre of the Church - Radio Vaticana
The true shepherd knows how to step down from his church, because he knows that he is not at the center of history, but is a free man who has served without compromises and without taking control of his flock.
Bishop Angaelos to the Terrorists: You Are Loved - NC Register
The general bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church reflects on the recent Islamist attacks that killed at least 29 Coptic Christians in Egypt and scores more in England and the Philippines.
Fr. Dwight Longenecker: Birth Control and Catholic Priests - Patheos
A lie cannot sustain itself. I think young people are going to reject the contraceptive culture and choose a life-giving alternative, and with that will be an increase of young men and women who choose a religious vocation.
Islamic State claims responsibility for Egypt attack - The Washington Post
The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for the attack on a bus carrying Christians on their way to a remote desert monastery south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, which killed 29.
How Are We To Live in This Broken World? - Catholic World Report
No one can live in God's love, in His inner life, who does not want to be there. Such is our dignity that God only can accept us if we freely want to be there.
Is There Salvation Outside the Church? - NC Register
The most obvious evidence of original sin is that I have made myself my own god. If that is the way I am, then I reckon most other ordinary people are operating pretty much on the same basis.
Do-It-Yourself Biology - Crisis Magazine
Authentic liberty always means conformity — not to the fictions, fads, and fashions of the day — but to the Truth of divine order.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |
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