The Mother of the Lord of the Sabbath
Our Lady did not have that downward pull that we have, but she still had choices, and she could have wrong ones or right ones.
Our Lady did not have that downward pull that we have, but she still had choices, and she could have wrong ones or right ones.
Of all the means of evangelization at our disposal, perhaps the least talked about is . . . not talking.
We know how it feels, finding yourself suddenly appointed the spokesman for the Catholic Church while you're standing at a photocopier, swigging a drink at the bar, or when a group of folks suddenly freezes, and all eyes fix on you.
We must grow in wisdom, as Christ did, by deepening our understanding of the sacramental life through the very substance of every day.
By their relentless practicality the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius shove the searcher into the center of the Gospel and leave him alone there with Christ, with the triune God who speaks to him.
The object which Christ contemplates, which he loves in the Church, is not human nature simply, but human nature illuminated and renovated by his own supernatural power.
We are far too apt to look upon forgiveness as a merely negative thing.