Despite having everything we need and even more that we don’t need, people are more physically, mentally, and spiritually diseased than ever before. Why? Because God has been eliminated from our hearts. We need to rediscover the God Who has never left our side. Following is just a handful of the many passages from God telling you His love for you. Let meditating on these be a start to rediscovering Him.
Humans are creatures of habit. Habits are hard to change, at least the dysfunctional and sinful ones are. After all, Jesus spent three years trying to get people to change their habitual way of thinking, and it took His death, resurrection and ascension to shift their paradigm…
On this Holy Thursday, reflect upon how Jesus loved His own in the world, and He loved them to the end. His love for you is enduring too.
There are many common, detrimental ways that we accept small lies and ignore the voice inside us that objects to them. That little ‘voice’ is the Holy Spirit protecting us by firing up unrest in our conscience at the presence of untruths. Yet how easy it is to ignore the Spirit and go with the lie. This list of common false spirits provides fuel for a heart-y Examen and mental prayer. 😊
Posted in a parish bulletin and source unknown, we are invited to fast from worries and vices, and instead feast on truth and love.
With Lent on the horizon, now is the time to introduce moderation into your life. St. Ignatius of Loyola provides us with a set of eight rules to order your disordered eating habits. With a closer look, you’ll find that these concepts apply to anything that needs modification. 😊 In the rules that follow, Ignatius’ own words are first given and then explained in terms of living it today.
This is the last of a three-part series on spiritual journaling. Christian journaling differs from that of Eastern religions and new age personal development because it is a conversation with God focused on Him. Parts one and two differentiated it from diary-keeping and explained the steps to take in journaling. This final article will explain how to journal your mental prayer experience itself.
This is the second of a three-part series on spiritual journaling. Christian journaling differs from that of Eastern religions and new age personal development because it is a conversation with God focused on Him. This article explains how to journal which is different than keeping a diary.
This is the first of a three-part series on spiritual journaling. Christian journaling differs from that of Eastern religions and new age personal development because it is a conversation with God focused on Him. Parts two and three will explain how to go about journaling.
The Catholic mass always concludes with an instruction to go and share the Gospel of the Lord. We leave mass with the best of intentions to live our faith only to forget everything once we are behind the steering wheel in the car!
What if there was a way to make the mass, particularly the Eucharist, a way of life?