And you, wives and bread-winners, have you no task within the fold, no little flock to tend and guard? Has not …
Self-conquest
December 30, 2012
Reading over my reflections and resolutions on the Third Degree during the Long Retreat, I see now they are little more than …
December 22, 2012
I believe strongly in corporal penance as a means to the end. But a denial of your own will often costs more …
December 7, 2012
You seem to be suffering, my dear child, from a very common religious malady – discouragement and want of patience with yourself, …
December 1, 2012
It is scarcely necessary to state that deliberate sin in any shape or form utterly destroys the interior life and even …
November 30, 2012
During the winter I have done a penance which I shrink from and dread in a way which I cannot describe. …
November 29, 2012
St Francis Xavier Vince teipsum (Conquer yourself). This is the secret of the Exercises. “I learnt no other lesson from my master …
November 26, 2012
Fr Doyle struggled to give up butter on his bread Your desire for penance is an excellent sign…But have a fixed amount …
November 18, 2012
Holiness and perfection depend on yourself, not on the actions of others. COMMENT: How easy it is for us to blame others, …
November 16, 2012
I was greatly struck and helped yesterday by these words of the Imitation (of Christ): My child: let me do with you …
November 3, 2012