Blog Post

Resisting Bad Thoughts

gracelinesheader

“If any bad thought comes to you, makeevil thoughts6 the sign of the cross, or say the Our Father, or strike your breast, and try to think of something else. If you do that, the thought will actually be winning you merit, because you will be resisting it.”

                                  ~St. Teresa of Avila

 

 

 

 

For Reflection:

What a transforming way to look at temptation! Today I will follow St. Teresa’s advice and examine conscience at day’s end to see how well I have done.

gracelinefeature The Authority of Women in the Catholic Churchb1697

by Monica Miller; PB 202 pgs Click Here For More Information 

                FOREWORD

If the public exchange were a true conversation, it might be salutary. It might be good for us. But it's not. It's more like an exchange of gunfire. It's more like shots fired at long distance from behind bunkered walls. What should be reasoned out is instead flamed out in social-media comboxes, where everyone is raging and no one is listening. How good it would be if we could move the exchange out of the battlefield, out of the comboxes, and even out of the courts.

Categories

Archives

2024

2024 Archives

2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008