Modern Culture
“The reduction of the world and its “history,” are the tools of those who lack the imagination and patience to find the truth. Those who...
Empathy
“The word “empathy” is often defined as placing ourselves in the shoes of another. Empathy makes us more compassionate toward other...
Bible/Scripture
“The Scriptures are not a manual on how to live a moral life or how to organize the Church as an institution. The Scriptures are the...
Compassion
“How greatly almsgiving contributes to prayer. If you want to pray you have to become a generous person. Generous in the whole meaning of...
Perfectionism
“One thing that should be clear from reading the New Testament is that there is no instant perfection. Rather, we strive, struggle and...
Brokenness
“Just as God sent Jesus back into the world with his wounds, so we are sent into each day with our wounds…Jesus His followers with their...
Self
“The story of ‘the Fall’ is the story of human self-will: we like to do what we want regardless of how our relationships or others are...
Order and Disorder
“In a medieval world, the “order” of things was thought important: kings and commoners, high-born and low-born, masters, yeomen, and...
Hunger
“Let me allow God to turn my emotional hunger into spiritual hunger for Him as I try to avoid pathways that lead only to my numerous...
Righteousness
“Man follows his desire. One can even say that man is desire, and this fundamental psychological truth about human nature is acknowledged...