January 25
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
-Matthew 6:19-21
January 24
"Pay the greatest attention to this: that your heart be ever glowing with love. Boiling water does not attract flies, lukewarm water does. In the same way the devil with all his impure thoughts shuns and keeps his distance from the soul aglow with love for God..."
-St. Camilla Batista Varano
January 23
"Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin..."
-Psalm 51:1
A reader of our blog has agreed to share her powerful testimony about leaving a cult known as Eckankar.
January 22
"The devil only tempts those souls that wish to abandon sin and those that are in a state of grace. The others belong to him; he has no need to tempt them."
-St. John Vianney
Earlier this month the Italian Embassy to the Holy See hosted a conference on the practice of surrogacy, calling for a “total abolition” of the practice, a position shared by a surprising number of secular feminist groups.
January 21
"If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
-John 8:31-31
BB writes: "There are so many different kinds of therapies and self-help practices out there these days. Can you give us some practical advice on how to know if it's New Age or not?"
January 20
"Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived..."
-St. Hildegard of Bingen
January 19
"For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter;..."
-Matthew 12:34-36
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