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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t65i7-13a0c55 How I am, especially during this Lent, trying to stay faithful to prayer. St. Teresa called it “determined determination”. It’s a tall order for this Ordinary Catholic. I bet it is for you too!

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-anid2-139640c I am learning to look at a chore as a golden opportunity, 40 days of penitence to clear away the cobwebs of vanity!

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n4fqj-138bfba I have been struggling with the Ignatian Exercises. But, this week, I went back to an outline I had been given in my first exposure to the Exercises and I realized that considering the very first thing, the Creation, and my creation, in a way I had not heretofore done, was something of aContinue reading “Prayer: The Key to Union with God Who Is, Was, and Always Will Be Love”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-md9vv-1376e22 A somewhat discursive episode, borne of a difficult week, and trying to manage to get back on the (spiritual) road.  

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gy8a8-136c545 We human beings have a knack for giving our evil actions a veneer of good by euphemisms. Ultimately those euphemisms, lies, become the societal reality. I have been watching documentaries about WWII and the atrocities in Germany by the Nazis, doctors, nurses and ordinary people. Folks don’t like the comparison made to abortion. Well,Continue reading “Euphemistic Unholiness”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zfubq-1362c38 One, if not the, central thoughts of Catholicism is the following of Christ in our suffering. And yet, we believing Catholics regularly fail to join our suffering to His, instead acting as if we should be spared, and entirely missing the point of our Faith. Just thinking on this today. 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bg8yf-1358d5c As he was being invested a Pope, Benedict the XVI asked for prayer that he not flee for fear of the wolves. Clearly he was aware of some deep troubles in the Vatican. But that prayer is something just as applicable to you and me, ordinary Catholics. 

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i5map-134f03a On this last day of 2022, thinking about what needs to be done going forward, toward emptying myself to be filled up with God, counter to the culture which seeks to find a Self without God. Even with Grace, no easy task. But here’s to a New Year of seeking God and not self,Continue reading “Un-Self Realization”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-j4fzq-1347a13 Today is Christmas Eve. Let us all be glad, and recall what it means that God entered into time, the time He created, to redeem us!

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-t2hau-133edc9 Perhaps it is the darkness of our times, but scientific and religious interest in the Image on the Shroud of Turin has been assisted by the Exhibition in Salamanca, Spain, called The Mystery Man. The three dimensional image on the Shroud, still an enigma in terms of how it could have occurred except byContinue reading “The Mystery Man: He Always Leaves Room for Faith”