It seems to me that the best and most practical resolution I can make is to determine to perform each action with …
Virtues
February 8, 2012
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, 2012
I am glad you wrote to me for I, at least, can understand exactly what you are suffering; it is really a …
February 4, 2012
I would like you to note down in a little book the following things. Every day read each item over and …
February 1, 2012
A kind word goes far. I stopped to say a few words to a group of men at a street corner in …
January 30, 2012
Abandon yourself completely into the hands of God, and take directly from Him every event of life, agreeable, or disagreeable. Only then …
January 29, 2012
St Thomas Aquinas As to any practice of piety there is a double danger: recommending it as infallible, or condemning it as …
January 28, 2012
Conversion of St Paul by Caravaggio Every grace we get enlightens the understanding and strengthens the will. When the understanding is enlightened, …
January 25, 2012
Life is too short for a truce. COMMENT: How typical is this pithy statement from Fr Doyle! We are here for …
January 23, 2012
The temptation of St Anthony Are you not foolish in wishing to be free from these attacks of impatience, etc.? I know …
January 17, 2012