The word “Resolved” has provided us with an opportunity to fashion our new year’s resolutions around an acronym that helps us make progress on the path of holiness.
Yesterday, we looked at the importance of Recommitment to Jesus Christ and two types of Examinations of Conscience. Each of these enable us to take a confident step forward on our spiritual journey. Today we will see, however, that without the wisdom provided by the S and the O, we will never reach the depths of union to which God beckons us.
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“Men do not fear a powerful hostile army
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While celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany yesterday, Pope Francis encouraged the faithful to develop a "holy cunning" - a spiritual shrewdness that will help them discern danger, steer them toward the good and help them avoid living a mediocre life.
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A new grassroots campaign is underway to allow people to give an aborted child the dignity of a name and allow them - and the world - to honor them in a fitting way.
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An organization devoted to helping embattled Christians around the world says persecution is expected to continue to rise in 2014 unless world governments do more to stop it.
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In yesterday’s post, we discovered that New Year’s resolutions often fade and fizzle early on for two reasons:
1) They are resolutions we determine for ourselves.
2) They are solely dependent upon our own human efforts to be accomplished.
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“If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted,
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The legal recognition of alternative "families" in today's world continues unabated with a Manhattan judge ruling that two people who are not romantically involved and don't even live together can adopt a child.
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A host of new glitches are arising now that the controversial Affordable Care Act has gone into effect with one of the most outrageous involving new parents who are being told the systems automated feature enabling them to add a new baby to their policy will be "available later."
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They're back - those useless 2014 horoscope predictions that somehow manage to garner millions of readers.
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The word “Resolved” has provided us with an opportunity to fashion our new year’s resolutions around an acronym that helps us make progress on the path of holiness.
