There’s no such thing as a weak will

While “Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” by Father John Harvey, OSFS. In it, there is a section on St. Augustine’s confessions regarding his struggle for chastity.
According to St. Augustine, there’s no such thing as a “strong will” or “weak will”, only a united or divided will. He speaks of two kinds of inner battles - [...]

Examination of Conscience vs Consciousness Examen

For a long time, I’ve always thought that the spiritual exercises of Examination of Conscience and the Consciousness Examen were the same thing. It didn’t help that both were taught to me by Jesuits, which added to my confusion. But a short discussion with Tabitubby last week cleared up the confusion for me.
Though they [...]

Do you babble when you pray the Rosary?

In your prayers do not babble as the pagans do, for they think that by using many words they will make themselves heard. Do not be like them: your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
While typing out the readings for today, I came [...]

Tuesday, January 29 - Death and Taxes

2 Samuel 6:12-15, 17-19
David went and brought the ark of God up from Obed-edom’s house to the Citadel of David with great rejoicing. When the bearers of the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fat sheep. And David danced whirling round before the [...]

I like praying the Rosary!

That’s a rare thing for me to say. It is also rare that I pick up a papal document to read, and even rarer for me to finish it in one setting. But I just spent the last hour or so doing that. I just finished reading Rosarium Virginis Mariae, the [...]

Tuesday, January 15 - How Do You Pray?

1 Samuel 1:9-20
After they had eaten in the hall, Hannah rose and took her stand before the Lord, while Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the temple of the Lord. In the bitterness of her soul she prayed to the Lord with many tears and [...]

Friday, October 19 - The Hidden Life

Romans 4:1-8
What shall we say about Abraham, the ancestor from whom we are all descended? If Abraham was justified as a reward for doing something, he would really have had something to boast about, though not in God’s sight because scripture says: Abraham put his faith in God, and this [...]

Tuesday, October 9 - A Quiet Time Is All I Need

Jonah 3:1-10
The word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah: “Up!” he said. “Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to them as I told you to.” Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare: [...]

Thursday, September 27 - God First

Haggai 1:1-8
In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord was addressed through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, high commissioner of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as follows, “The Lord of hosts [...]

Monday, September 17 - Praying Offers More Solutions Than Complaining

1 Timothy 2:1-8
My advice is that, first of all, there should be prayers offered for everyone - petitions, intercessions and thanksgiving - and especially for kings and others in authority, so that we may be able to live religious and reverent lives in peace and quiet. To do this is [...]