September 11
“For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.”
-St. Bernard
Filled with Holy Fear
Yearly Archives: 2018
Is Chair Yoga Real Yoga?
PM writes: “What is chair yoga? Is it OK to do as one is not upright doing poses?”
The storms that rage
September 10
“I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.”
-St. Faustina
Priest Risks Life to Save a Soul
The following story was sent to us by one of our Women of Grace facilitators. It’s a beautiful witness to the devotion and faithfulness of our priests who put themselves and, as this story illustrates, even their lives on the line every day for no other reason than to save souls for Jesus Christ.
Study: Unisex Changing Rooms Are Magnets for Sexual Assault
New data obtained through a Freedom of Information request by a UK newspaper has found that 90 percent of complaints regarding changing room sexual assaults, voyeurism and harassment at public swimming pools occurred in unisex facilities.
As the struggle increases
September 9
“Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggle increases.”
-St. Rose of Lima
Receiving the Tao
We took a call on our radio show last week from a woman asking about a ceremony known as “Receiving the Tao.” She claimed to know someone who had been involved in this. Because I had not heard of this before, I promised to do some research for her on what this might be. What I found is disturbing, especially for Catholics who may be getting involved in this.
Happy Birthday to our Most Blessed Mother!
September 8
“Think of what the Saints have done for their neighbor because they loved God. But what Saint’s love for God can match Mary’s? She loved Him more in the first moment of her existence than all the Saints and angels ever loved Him or will love Him. Our Lady herself revealed to Sister Mary Crucified that the fire of her love was most extreme. If Heaven and earth were placed in it, they would be instantly consumed. And the ardors of the seraphim, compared with it, are like cool breezes. Just as there is not one among all the Blessed who loves God as Mary does, so there is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does. Furthermore, if we heaped together all the love that mothers have for their children, all the love of husbands and wives, all the love of all the angels and Saints for their clients, it could never equal Mary’s love for even a single soul.”
-St. Alphonsus Liguori
How St. Mary MacKillop Survived a Sex Abuse Scandal
St. Mary MacKillop (Wikicommons)
No one was more familiar with the internal chaos our Church is presently experiencing than the humble St. Mary MacKillop, an Australian nun who found herself on the wrong side of Church authorities after she reported a priest for abusing children.
Silence
September 7
“Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
–Venerable Fulton Sheen
