Despondency
“When we are emotionally, physically, and spiritually attacked and exhausted, we are distracted from doing God’s work and our energy is literally being sapped away like a tree that has been “attacked and continually sends nourishment to its wounded parts. Rest assured; we all have places that have been wounded. A memory. An experience. A grief that we are still carrying for a loved one. A dream unpursued and a prayer that we believe to be unanswered. And these weaknesses, the
Sloth
“Sloth may seem like a trivial fault compared with sins against the Ten Commandments or impure thoughts and atrocious deeds. But...
Suffering (Gratitude and Growth)
“Gratitude is not about gritting your teeth and saying things are fine when they are not. Rather, true gratitude involves acknowledging...
Sadness
“There is a happiness that comes from weakness, a happiness that is often called joy. When I am weak, St. Paul said, then God is strong...
Coronavirus
“No matter what challenges we face, including sickness and death and inconvenience, we may use them as points of entry into the...
Inversion
“From sinful arrogance there follows the inversion of truth…Sin inverts the good order of God, so that mankind calls “evil good and good...