just another day of Catholic pondering by Sarah Reinhard
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want to become a great saint? Ask God to send you many sufferings. The flame of Divine Love never rises higher than when fed with the wood of the Cross, which [...]
This struck me from my morning reading of Jesus of Nazareth, and I thought I’d share it here. The point is this: guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession, we bring it into the light, we place it within [...]
Ash Wednesday always has an effect on me. It’s not just my struggle with fasting, but also my struggle with authority. I wanna do it my way. I wanna just go along, be happy and comfortable and unencumbered. The thing is, being comfortable and unencumbered usually aren’t part of being happy, at least not the kind of [...]
Outside my window: It’s dark, because it’s night. Waaaaay past my bedtime, in fact. Usually I have a “no computer” rule after dinner, but that’s been sliding in the last few months and today’s been full. I just finished this great book and I can’t wind down just yet, so here I am. Around the [...]
A Mary Moment Monday post As I’ve struggled over the last week with vacation hangover and a state of vomitorium and a general inability to keep focused, I found myself looking at the people around me (all smaller than me, very demanding, and my main responsibility) and struggling. This excerpt from The Reed of God, by [...]
A Mary Moment Monday post I’ve been reading The Reed of God, by Caryll Houselander. I don’t know what I expected it to be, but it wasn’t what it is. I was expecting either poetry that was way over my head or theology on Mary that bored me to pieces. What I’m finding is poetic prose [...]
A Mary Moment Monday post I take a lot of comfort from this insight from the pope: Mary truly believed that ‘nothing is impossible to God’ and, strong in this confidence she let herself be guided by the Holy Spirit in daily obedience to his plan. How can we not desire that same trusting abandon [...]
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