Posted by: roth0003 on: March 26, 2009
A great article from Spirit Daily, http://www.spiritdaily.com/: WHEN A SUDDEN INCLINATION ARRIVES, TIME HAS COME TO DISCERN IT BY STEPPING BACK If you want a safe voyage here on earth, and then to the hereafter, watch that first thought. Watch the first impulses you have. Watch the first thing you want to think or do [...]
Posted by: roth0003 on: March 25, 2009
In the 1870’s, a succesful attorney named Horatio Spafford experienced a series of personal tragedies. Shortly after his only son died in 1871, he suffered financial ruin as a consequence of the great Chicago fire. He sent his wife and their four daughters to Europe, where he was to join them after attending to some [...]
Posted by: roth0003 on: March 22, 2009
Have you ever noticed that sometimes when we ask God to help us to develop a virtue, we run into constant challenges that seem to frustrate our aims? Pray for patience, and there will be red lights and slow grocery checkout lives. Pray to become more loving, and there will be an onslaught of pesky [...]
Posted by: roth0003 on: March 12, 2009
Most of us know someone who “sets our teeth on edge”, someone who irritates us almost every time we meet. This presents quite a challenge when we are trying to follow in the footsteps of Christ. The autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux offers the following account of her method of responding to the challenge: [...]
