Woman Paralyzed While Practicing Acroyoga

Acroyoga (Photo courtesy of Wikicommons Images, Earl McGehee, CC BY-SA 3.0)

JK writes: “I recently heard about a woman who suffered a horrendous injury from a type of yoga called acroyoga. Is this real yoga or another one of those spin-offs we hear about.”

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Is your heart open?

August 31

“The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds … empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.”

-St. Edith Stein

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Should We Pay Attention to the Prophecies of Rabbi Kaduri?

Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri (1898-2006) Photo courtesy of Wikicommons Images, Avi Ohayon, CC BY-SA 3.0

We have been asked by our readers to address the prophecies of the late orthodox Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri who predicted that Jesus would return shortly after the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, which occurred on January 11, 2014.

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Restraining a hasty word

August 28

“Far from being like to those great souls who from their childhood practice all sorts of macerations, I made my mortification consist solely in the breaking of my will, restraining a hasty word, rendering little services to those around me without making anything of it, and a thousand other things of this kind.”

-Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

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