TG asks: “I have some questions about white witchcraft. What is it? How is it different from black witchcraft or other occult practices? What is the Catholic church’s teaching on this subject?”
A religious wrote to ask if we know anything about Chinese decorative knots. “They are red, and come in various designs and I believe go back hundreds if not thousands of years. I've read they can signify different things like luck, romance, love, etc. We have received, from a Chinese Priest, holy images of Our Lord and Our Lady which are decorated with these knots. Is there anything to be concerned about there? Should we remove the decorations?”
March 9
"We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable."
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
March 8
"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
-St. Augustine
RS writes: "I am reading self-help books about personal safety. The books stress the importance of intuition. Problem is, I had an intuition that the safety of my child was compromised but when I asked the (very young, not easy to converse with age) child they said nothing happened. But what about what my intuition said? I'm in such a worry. Is intuition real? Is it a God given thing? Since we are not perfect and don't know everything, how can my intuition or gut tell me things? Where did the use of 'mother's intuition' begin? Is intuition new age?"
The mental health community is reacting with alarm after Prince Harry debuted in a widely-watched livestream interview with trauma expert Dr Gabor Mate in which he claimed cannabis and an illegal psychedelic drug named ayahuasca helped him to deal with mental health issues after his mother’s death.
March 7
"To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them."
-St. Thomas Aquinas
March 6
"This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is required of us so that the face of the earth may be renewed."
-St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
March 5
"But above all preserve peace of heart. This is more valuable than any treasure. In order to preserve it there is nothing more useful than renouncing your own will and substituting for it the will of the divine heart. In this way his will can carry out for us whatever contributes to his glory, and we will be happy to be his subjects and to trust entirely in him."
-St Margaret Mary Alacoque
March 4
"The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest."
-St. Augustine
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