March 8
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
-St. Augustine
Yearly Archives: 2023
What is Women’s Intuition?
RS writes: “I am reading self-help books about personal safety. The books stress the importance of intuition. Problem is, I had an intuition that the safety of my child was compromised but when I asked the (very young, not easy to converse with age) child they said nothing happened. But what about what my intuition said? I’m in such a worry. Is intuition real? Is it a God given thing? Since we are not perfect and don’t know everything, how can my intuition or gut tell me things? Where did the use of ‘mother’s intuition’ begin? Is intuition new age?”
Prince Harry Under Fire for Promoting Illegal Drugs for Mental Health Use
The mental health community is reacting with alarm after Prince Harry debuted in a widely-watched livestream interview with trauma expert Dr Gabor Mate in which he claimed cannabis and an illegal psychedelic drug named ayahuasca helped him to deal with mental health issues after his mother’s death.
Lead someone to Him!
March 7
“To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.”
-St. Thomas Aquinas
A serious warning cry
March 6
“This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Peace of heart
March 5
“But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure. In order to preserve it there is nothing more useful than renouncing your own will and substituting for it the will of the divine heart. In this way his will can carry out for us whatever contributes to his glory, and we will be happy to be his subjects and to trust entirely in him.”
-St Margaret Mary Alacoque
Run to Jesus!
March 4
“The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.”
-St. Augustine
Saint Katharine Drexel: The Heavenly Worth of Earthly Wealth
by Theresa Cavicchio
The rarified atmosphere of center city Philadelphia was the privileged milieu into which Katharine Drexel (1858 – 1955) came into the world. The second child of wealthy financier Francis Drexel and Hannah Langstroth, sadly, Katharine and her sister Elizabeth suffered the loss of their mother in Katharine’s fifth week of life.
Filled with holy fear
March 3
“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
What Do Christian Prayer Postures Have in Common with Yoga?
KK writes: “As a counter to yoga, why not publicize/popularize/promote our own prayer posture . . . to promote our rich heritage to satisfy the contemporary hunger for an all inclusive, whole being relationship with Our Majesty?”
