"Pray as though everything depended on God, and act as if everything depended on you." - St. Augustine Since writing on Wednesday about working hard and zealously for God, I have been thinkin...
From time to time, in the life of a married man, he is briefly relieved of the responsibilities of work and family life, and for a brief moment, he is returned to the state of bachelorhood. On the on...
There are so many occasions in our life where we have the opportunity to worry and become anxious. Indeed, anxiety seems to be so common to the descendants of Adam and Eve that an alien coming to Ear...
On Wednesday, President Obama created the news item of the week by stating that he was personally in favor of gay marriage. Now, for many people this wasnt a surprise as that saying "actions spea...
It is a very easy thing for a man to lose sight of all those things that make life worth living. For some reason, we face the perennial difficulty of continually valuing that which is not truly valua...
One of my friends, who also has a blog, told me that a primary reason of his for starting such an online publication was to give himself a sense of a deadline. He said he wanted to write more often, ...
As some may have picked up from several of my more recent blog postings, I have been particularly struck of late by the virtue of humility. This is not to say that I have been particularly adept at p...
The celebrations of Christmas and Easter hold such an importance in the Churchs spiritual life that she gives them each an Octave: eight days of Solemnity, of celebrating, after the actual day. These...
"But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they ...
Here we are. After nearly 40 days of Lent, after making resolutions, after sometimes failing to keep them, weve come upon the time that weve eagerly been preparing for. In just over 24 hours, the hol...
There is nothing like growing up in a super power to teach you what wealth is. The experience of unprecedented material comfort swiftly instructs man in the goodness of all the lower things. Unfortun...
During the past few weeks, I have found myself wondering what late February, March, and early April are like to non-Catholics, and I imagine that this time of the year must be rather boring. We are f...
There are many sins that man has gotten proficient at since the fall, but there seems to be none he performs with more ease than grumbling. Indeed, it may very well have been the first response to th...
One of the true joys of being out of college is that I am now able to go back and really read the books I was assigned in college. For some reason, the busyness and workload of college (and my own po...
Having grown up in Illinois, and now living in Virginia, I often have an opportunity to undergo long drives. And, having married a woman from Michigan, I find that at every major holiday, and at vari...
Whenever I see a headline using the term "culture war," I briefly get my hopes up for what the news article will contain. I think to myself, "Perhaps those on the left have finally become...
Most of the time, when I sit down to write a blog post, I have a pretty good idea of what to say. I usually pick my topics two or three days in advance, and I just think over them whenever I have a s...
The mortality of man does not seem to occur to most men until a famous man, or in this case woman, dies. Indeed, I dont believe it is a modern phenomenon that we are particularly struck be the deaths...
It is a curious thing, I have observed, that winter generally follows on Fall and Summer, and it nearly always proceeds Spring. It is an even more curious thing to note that man, that ruler of nature...
With the contraceptive mandate receiving more and more national attention, the debate over contraception, religion, freedom, rights, and what constitutes womens health has taken center stage in the p...
What complacency looks like, according to Google Images. Theres a lot thats been happening over the past couple of days. Of course, the media has been flooded with stories and opinions regarding Susa...
The story of the disciples in the New Testament is one that has always captivated my imagination. Its an amazing tale to envision: twelve men being taken from various lives and being drawn close to t...
For years and years now the secular war on religion has become more and more clear. Day after day, month after month, being Catholic in todays world is becoming harder. Each day there seems to be a n...
It is worthy of note that for all of mans incredible intellectual abilities, most of his life goes by forgotten not only by the outside world, but even by himself. Going about our day to day duties, ...
For the past week or so, there has been a lot of talk and debate over a video on YouTube entitled "Why I hate Religion But Love Jesus." If you havent watched it, here it is: Now, ma...
"Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you." - Mt 11:28. As we traverse this valley of tears, it is the unique ability of man that he quite easily becomes side...
One interesting aspect about writing a blog is that youre never sure exactly how many people are reading it, nor are you sure exactly how they are coming to your blog. Are they coming directly to the...
I was thinking about Christmas the other day, and it occurred to me what a fantastic, beautiful, unique story God created when He was born in a manger. The smell of the manger, the shepherds coming a...
Ive come to a surprising realization about myself over the past couple of weeks, a realization that has really caused me to sit back and reorient my priorities. Fittingly, I would even call it an epi...
Last week I wrote about the need for trust in God. I spoke about how we should confidently ask God for what we want, trusting that He will grant our prayers. Of course, I skirted around the issu...
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