Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe
“Obedience raises us beyond the limits of our littleness and puts us in harmony with God’s will. Obedience is the one and the only way of wisdom and prudence for us to offer glory to God.”
-St. Maximilian Kolbe
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A Heresy Known as Esoteric Christianity
MBB asks: “What is esoteric Christianity?”
The simplicity of truth
Feast of Sts. Pontian and Hippolytus
"Do not devote your attention to the fallacies of artificial discourses, nor the vain promises of heretics, but to the venerable simplicity of unassuming truth.”
-St. Hippolytus
Why Do Women Freeze Their Eggs?
The practice of women freezing their eggs for possible future use made headlines this week with Rep. Alexandria Oscasio-Cortez announced her decision to freeze her eggs in order to “feel more in control of my life.”
Exercise faith
“If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.”
-Pope St. Gregory the Great
Chilling Testimony Reveals Dangers of New Age
We recently received this testimony from a reader of our blog who warns that even people who consider themselves to be devout in their faith can be seriously harmed by dabbling in New Age and/or occult-based practices. As this reader warns: “The devil seduces Christians into the New Age by making it seem harmless.” It’s not!
The brightness of eternal light
Feast of St. Clare
“(Jesus Christ) is the splendor of eternal glory, the brightness of eternal light, and the mirror without cloud. Queen and bride of Jesus Christ, look into that mirror daily and study well your reflection, that you may adorn yourself, mind and body, with an enveloping garment of every virtue, and thus find yourself attired in flowers and gowns befitting the daughter and most chaste bride of the king on high.”
-St. Clare of Assisi
Accept this suffering with joy
August 10
Feast of St. Lawrence, Martyr (D. 258)
"When slow consuming had seared
The flesh of Lawrence for a space,
He calmly from his gridiron made
This terse proposal to the judge:
'Pray turn my body, on one side
Already broiled sufficiently,
And see how well your Vulcan’s fire
Has wrought its cruel punishment.'"
-From a poem by Prudentius
On the martyrdom of St. Lawrence
Lay it in God’s hands
August 9
Feast of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross – Edith Stein
“…when night comes, and retrospect shows that everything was patchwork and much that one had planned left undone, when so many things rouse shame and regret, then take all as is, lay it in God’s hands, and offer it up to Him. In this way we will be able to rest in Him, actually to rest and to begin the new day like a new life.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
True teaching was in his mouth
August 8
Feast of St. Dominic
“This preacher of the new salvation leaped up like a flame. His words burned like a torch. True teaching was in his mouth. No evil was ever found in his life."
-From the Liturgy of the Hours for the Feast of St. Dominic
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