Posts Tagged ‘Conversion’
Padre Pio, Superhero, Makes Another Save
The remarkable conversion of actor Shia LaBeouf is making waves among Catholics and the culture at large. I watched his testimony in a fascinating long interview with Bishop Robert Barron. LaBeouf comes across as fully sincere, repentant, and highly thoughtful. This is an obviously intelligent and informed individual, highly cerebral, who came to the Church…
Read MoreFrom the Imitation of Christ: Amendment of Life
The Fervent Amendment of Our Whole Life Be vigilant and diligent in God’s service, and often consider to what end thou camest hither, and why thou didst leave the world: Was it not that thou mightst live for God and become a spiritual man? Be fervent, therefore, in thy spiritual progress, for thou shalt shortly…
Read MoreLove of Jesus for Sinners
Our Lord, the great and excellent physician of our infirmities, announced everywhere, before coming into this world, both His arrival and the maladies He would cure; sometimes by His prophets: “I will bind up that which was broken and I will comfort that which was weak. The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; to…
Read MoreMay 13th and the Consecration of Russia
THE STORY OF FATIMA On a cool spring day in 1916, Lucy dos Santos, age 9, and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, ages 8 and 6 respectively, took their parents’ sheep to pasture in a place not far from their homes in the mountain village of Fatima, Portugal, about 90 miles north of Lisbon.…
Read MoreMetanoia and the Spiritual Experience of Pilgrimage: Part I
Climbing Croagh Patrick in Ireland before dawn. Attending Midnight Mass in Bethlehem under the stars. Standing in the arena under the Mediterranean sun where the martyrs perished in Carthage. Fortunate is the Catholic who can experience pilgrimage, embarking on an extraordinary journey of faith and the personal transformation that comes from penitence and conversion, a…
Read MoreDeferring Conversion Until Death
“We must bear in mind an undeniable principle, concerning which St. Augustine and all the holy Doctors are agreed – namely, that as true repentance is the work of God, so He can inspire it when and where he wills.” -Ven. Louis of Granada The excerpt below is taken from the 16th-century TAN classic known…
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