The effect of fervour may be likened to that of fire on water. When cold, water is motionless and chills all that …
Virtues
February 12, 2020
Christian abnegation is not composed merely of renunciation: it leads to something tangible and definite. We abandon what is false to cling …
February 9, 2020
Don’t be one of those who give God everything but one little corner of their heart on which they put …
February 8, 2020
St Agatha I was meditating on my desire to die a martyr’s death for Jesus, and then asked myself if I was …
February 5, 2020
St Therese of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church It seems to me that the best and most practical resolution I can make …
February 3, 2020
St John Bosco One month of the new year has passed away, leaving behind it the memory of what has been …
January 31, 2020
A kind word goes far. I stopped to say a few words to a group of men at a street corner in …
January 30, 2020
Abandon yourself completely into the hands of God, and take directly from Him every event of life, agreeable, or disagreeable. Only then …
January 29, 2020
The Conversion of St Paul by Caravaggio Every grace we get enlightens the understanding and strengthens the will. When the understanding …
January 25, 2020
Life is too short for a truce. COMMENT: How typical is this pithy statement from Fr Doyle! We are here for a …
January 22, 2020