After having heard so much of the efficacy and advantages of prayer, you must doubtless be desirous to know how you can acquire that spirit
From God to Catherine: WHEN the soul has passed through the doctrine of Christ crucified, with true love of virtue and hatred of vice, and
O Virgin of aureate radiance, most holy Mother of God, joy of the angels, exaltation of the patriarchs, happiness of the prophets, felicity of the
Prayer forms Catholic culture more than anything else, especially when centered on the Eucharist. Encountering Christ daily in prayer enables the Eucharist’s divine life to
Spiritual writers often distinguish between four ends of prayer, that is, four reasons why one may go to prayer. They are usually articulated as: Adoration, Thanksgiving, Contrition (or Expiation), and Petition.By Adoration, the one at prayer acknowledges that God is, in-and-of Himself,
WE HAVE EMPHASIZED, with calculated repetition, St. Teresa’s fundamental theory of meditation: a loving conversation with Christ. St. Teresa, though, was a clever pedagogue; she realized that it is alarmingly difficult to kneel down and inaugurate conversation with Christ immediately.
If you want all your prayers to be answered without fail and oblige God to meet all your wishes, the first thing is never to
Without exaggeration we can say: Whatsoever is truly great in this world is a fruit of prayer. Every man who has achieved something extraordinary in
O most loving Mother of God, Mary ever-virgin, you overflow with a miraculous sweetness, which the human mind is not able to comprehend or describe!
“And all things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive.” -John 21:22 God has solemnly promised to hearken to a prayer said
“Be still and know that I am God.” I seek you, my God, but not through any of the senses of my body or through
The anemic style so frequently noted in recent translations and compositions of prayer, particularly over the past sixty or so years, is not quite so
“For the Church, precisely because it embraces all nations and is destined to endure until the end of time…of its very nature requires a language
EIGHTH TRUTH: My interior life will be no better than my custody of my heart. “Before all things keep a guard over thy heart, for
In this book the words life of prayer, contemplative life will be applied, as they are in the Imitation of Christ to the state of
Invitation of the Heart of Jesus Part I The Devotion to the Sacred Heart is the Last Effort in These Latter Ages of the Love
One of the most common and deplorable illusions consists in judging of our prayer by the consolation or dryness we meet with therein. In thinking
Is Reparation Destined to Save Society? In the nineteenth century Blessed Pope Pius IX stated, “Reparation is destined to save society!” One addresses God by
Stop. Be still. Calm the mind for a moment; allow the striking, jarring, chilling words of the God-man to sink deeply into your soul: “And
“Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.” -Matthew 6:7 A man
Sermon for Ash Wednesday, February 9, 1622, concerning the spiritual fruits of fasting and the conditions which make fasting pleasing to God: fasting universally, that
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