Other's Spirituality

Perhaps when you are uncomfortable with someone or his practices, it is not him or his practices, but your reaction that makes you uncomfortable. If you judge him, is the painful twinge your conscience telling you of your sin, rather than his?

If he is missing some piece of Truth, then show him Truth. Do not judge.

Look to the Eucharist

If you doubt the Goodness of God, look to the Eucharist.
If you doubt His love
...if you doubt His concern
...if you doubt His mercy

Look to the Eucharist.

Eucharist and the Body of Christ

When you receive the Eucharist, do not merely receive the graces for your own life. Rather, offer Mary her Son, that she may distribute these infinite graces to the whole world. For we are broken vessels; we cannot receive all of the graces proffered to us in the Eucharist. But surrounded by her perfect vessel, not a drop will be lost; through her intercession the whole world can be saved. Allow the graces from your Eucharist to win life for the unborn child, peace for the troubled woman, Truth and meaning for the man in the suit.

Gaining Virtue

The surest way to fail in your attempts to gain virtue is to judge those who have not attained it. If you struggle with temptation, stop judging and you will be granted victory over the demons that plague you.

Needs fulfilled

If we are in need, we have only to look at what we have and what tomorrow will bring, for You O Lord are an extravagant Lover! You know our true desires, and You fulfill them a thousand fold, if only we would open to You and believe in Your goodness!

The Accuser

Upon St Michael casting the demons from heaven, a loud voice proclaims:

"Now have salvation and power come, and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of His Anointed. For the accuser of our brothers is cast out, who accuses them before our God day and night." Revelations 12:10

How can we be certain the the Lord will forgive our sins and unite us with Him if we accept His invitation to love? Because the devil and his minions have been cast from the skies, and there is no one left to accuse us. If we have come before the Lord with contrite hearts, and He has wiped us clean, then there is no one in heaven who will accuse us. Love reigns.

When you hear a voice in your head which accuses you, call upon the name of your savior Jesus Christ. For the Accuser is trying to separate you from His love and mercy. Our Lord will speak as Truth, not accusation. He is justice as well as mercy; He does not accuse, but correct.

The beauty of the masculine

Men, your strong sexual desires may seem like a thorn in your side, but remember that you were created in His wisdom. How beautiful and essential is your contribution to healing in marriage. For God has granted that even after a fight, even after exhausting days or struggles, that you can look at your beautiful wife and feel the call to union. This drive is essential for you to woo her back, for you to sing to her the Song of songs, that she may come back to you with all her heart and soul and you may experience the healing union of the marital act.

If you were not given this innate knowledge of love, this drive for total union with your wife, how could you initiate the self-giving love which welds the two iron persons into one? It is a drive which ordered properly guides the man to give up himself, to lay down his pride in a disagreement, and to serve his wife. In turn as she is wooed, she too will lay down herself and see past the petty issues to the thing worth fighting for: Love.