To make our combat with avarice real to ourselves… here are some considerations that may prove helpful: (1) The poor in spirit have the feeling that they always have too much for themselves whereas th...
One of the safest approaches to the discussing the vice of Lust is to recognize it has some eight daughters no one ought to want… but rather they should be feared, shunned and disowned. (i) Blindness...
In the end it comes down to Pride and Humility! Pride as the mother of condemnation or Humility at the soil of salvation! For "everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself...
One of the seven capital vices is ENVY. As a capital vice, a deadly sin, envy is a font of evil… a bubbling up and flowing over of many sins. Some of these sins or daughters of envy are slander, cal...
The Lord, the Good Shepherd, has now pulled away in His Body the Church in order to ascend the heights of Mount Calvary once again to renew the Law written in His own Precious Blood. We are among thos...
The world today is not at peace… not at rest… because it is not listening to God. Instead He is tuned out with myriad of distractions… a deluge of media…radio, ipads, ipods, internet… smart...
How many become slothful in our times... They put off doing what they are supposed to be doing… when they are supposed to do it. How many are so distracted today with many things such that they negl...
Anger is a deadly poison! The saints go so far as to say to yield to anger is never profitable to ourselves or to others. If it produce no other evil, it at least robs us of peace. The disturbance of...