FG writes: “I have friends who recently lost a child and have been communicating with him through a medium for months now. They claim it has given them so much comfort and closure. What’s so wrong about that?”
Monthly Archives: August 2024
Her original vocation
August 6
“Woman’s nature is determined by her original vocation of spouse and mother. One depends on the other. The body of woman is fashioned ‘to be one flesh’ with another and to nurse new human life in itself.”
-St. Edith Stein
Bringing new life to the world
August 5
“Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
-Genesis 1:26, 27
Overcoming false understandings
August 4
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
-Isaiah 5:20
Crowned with glory
August 3
“O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is thy name in the whole earth! For thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens…What is man that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man that thou visitest him? Thou hast made him little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor.”
-Psalm 8:2, 5-6
What it truly means to be woman
August 2
“The woman’s humanity is realized in the specific ways of a woman. She is a complete human being no less than the man, but according to her own nature. Her sex is not a mere accidental condition that could be abstracted. Her sex, on the contrary, is a reality that fundamentally defines her being and action and corresponds to the specific design of the Creator. Her physical and psychological qualities proclaim clearly what it truly means to be woman.”
-Jutta Burggraf
Stay Away from Trance Music!
MM writes: “I’m listening to trance/techno music, as well as Christian music. I have been told by a priest not to listen to techno/trance type music since I went to a spiritual renewal. But I never got a chance to ask why and what its roots are. . . . “
How do you see yourself?
August 1
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.”
-Jeremiah 1:5
