“Humility is perhaps the one virtue that divides society.” In 1942 a horrifying discovery was made in the Polish forest of Katyn. Workers uncovered a mass grave containing the remains of over 20,000 Polish citizens, military and civilians, who were seen as a threat to the Soviet regime. EachContinue Reading
Saint Monica is one of the best examples we have of the power of consistent prayer and the way God answers those prayers. When her son Augustine came of age he told his mother that he had become a Manichean. Manichaeism was a pagan philosophical religion that directly contradicted Christianity.Continue Reading
“True victory comes with perseverance and confidence in God’s goodness” The 1959 film, “A Dog of Flanders” is a lesson in persistence through adversity. (I don’t know if a “***spoiler warning***” is necessary for a 50 year old movie based on an even older novel, but consider yourself warned.)The storyContinue Reading
“Faith is the remedy for fear. If we have faith, there is little we need fear.” It sometimes seems that our pilgrimage here on earth takes us through a landscape of fear. We are surrounded by circumstances and situations we do not understand, and ignorance can lead us toContinue Reading
“The task is daunting, to go out and preach the Word of God to a hostile world.” -St. Augustine Augustine “I was weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when I heard the voice of children from a neighboring house chanting, ‘take up and read; take up andContinue Reading
“A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder” -Thomas Carlyle Adventures in Wonderland In Lewis Carroll’s, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Alice is wandering in an unfamiliar forest when she meets the Cheshire Cat. “Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?”Continue Reading