April 30
“Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Monthly Archives: April 2025
The “Maharishi Effect” Strikes Again
Another study claiming that the long-term practice of transcendental meditation (TM) can do everything from bring down crime rates to slow aging is once again making the news – and it’s raising the same questions that have plagued this theory for decades.
Where is that in the Bible?
Since we began this blog in 2009, I can’t tell you how many times we have received mail from people asking us to show them where we can find a prohibition against yoga, Reiki, and other New Age practices in Scripture. Because it’s not there (of course), the person feels that it is safe to assume no prohibition exists.
Leaders are magnanimous in their dreams
April 29
“Leaders are magnanimous in their dreams, visions, and sense of mission; in their capacity for hope, confidence, and daring; in their enthusiasm for the effort required to bring their work to a successful conclusion; in their capacity to challenge themselves and those around them.”
-Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership
Does the idea of being a leader intimidate you?
She must be valiant
April 27
“Between women and God is often arranged the eternal salvation of husbands and sons. But for this she must be valiant. Strong to uphold purity of life. Strong to keep inviolate the treasure of faith. Strong in every battle of life. Great-souled in the face of calamity, persecution and death. And remember, sorrow is the training ground of strong souls.”
-St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
Do you imitate Mary?
April 26
“Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls’ education.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Transform daily activities
April 25
“The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one’s own life in order to make room for God’s life.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
Sarah Hall’s Phony Mary Meditations
CL asks: “Can you tell me if Sarah Hall’s YouTube meditation on the Healing of the Blessed Mother is new age or is it ok for a Catholic to listen to? I have used it to fall asleep but won’t use it until I’m sure it is ok for a Catholic to listen to.”
