Don’t lose sight of this principle, that true holiness is based on humility. COMMENT: There is only one place in the Gospel …
Virtues
December 23, 2021
My genius of an orderly fried meat and pudding together and, with a smile of triumph on his face, brought both on …
December 22, 2021
21 December: A day I always like because the turning point of the year and from this on the evenings will be …
December 21, 2021
Fr Doyle wrote the following letter to his sister from the trenches on 19th December 1916, 105 years ago today. It gives …
December 19, 2021
“I have called upon Thee in the day of my trouble” (Psalm 85. 7). Jesus is our comforter. What burden is there …
December 18, 2021
A want of will is the chief obstacle to our becoming saints. We are not holy because we do not really wish …
December 17, 2021
Avoid worry, anxiety, uneasiness about anything. “The devil’s boiling pot” expresses this state of mind; one trouble ended, another crops up to …
December 16, 2021
God has many gifts to bestow upon us, but none more precious than time. Yet how we abuse this royal gift! How …
December 15, 2021
St John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church Surely you are not right in trying to keep our Lord away …
December 14, 2021
St Maravillas of Jesus I want to be generous with God and to refuse Him nothing. I do not want to …
December 11, 2021