“If any bad thought comes to you, make the sign of the cross, or say the Our Father, or strike your breast, and try to think of something else. If you do that, the thought will actually be winning you merit, because you will be resisting it.”

                                  ~St. Teresa of Avila

For Reflection:

What a transforming way to look at temptation! Today I will follow St. Teresa’s advice and examine conscience at day’s end to see how well I have done.

The Authority of Women in the Catholic Church

by Monica Miller; PB 202 pgs Click Here For More Information 

                FOREWORD

If the public exchange were a true conversation, it might be salutary. It might be good for us. But it's not. It's more like an exchange of gunfire. It's more like shots fired at long distance from behind bunkered walls. What should be reasoned out is instead flamed out in social-media comboxes, where everyone is raging and no one is listening. How good it would be if we could move the exchange out of the battlefield, out of the comboxes, and even out of the courts.