Attaining Union with God thru the Holy Eucharist

        The greatest and first enemy we face in our spiritual battle are ourselves.  If we can conquer ourselves, then everything else beco...

        Jesus has advised us to do many things.  He wants us to deny ourselves or sell all our possessions to follow him, to love our enemi...

        Live in him, rest in him, suffer in him, and die in him.

        So far I have posted 490 times to this blog and on this last day of January, 2010, I don't think I'll hit #500; but that...

        God is transcendent because he is not limited by time nor space.  We can also be transcendent is the sense that we can live in Chris...

        Confession is the Sacrament of Reconciliation.  The risen Christ gave it to us when he conferred on his apostles his own divine powe...

        I got the following message from the presiding priest at Mass this morning:  To be holy is to be happy, content, and fulfilled.  Th...

        I was thinking about humility this morning.  If we want to imitate Christ, this is the virtue that can help us go a long way toward ...

        In the last post, we learned that Jesus quieted the wind and stilled the sea.  This was done from a boat when his disciples with him...

        In today's Gospel reading from Mark 4, Jesus rebuked the wind and quieted the sea during a squall and the wind ceased and there ...

        The Holy Spirit speaks in a gentle voice, but the Devil is also adept at whispering to your heart.  One trick he employs is using yo...

        The Saturday morning Mass I attend starts half an hour later than the weekday morning Masses.  This morning I somehow miscalculated;...

        We normally ask for the many spiritual qualities, such as faith, perseverance, patience, etc., we think we need.  This approach is r...

        Last night I had a dream.  In it I noticed that a big wall-mounted light fixture was missing from the house (I say "the house...

        If you wish to transform the world, start with transforming yourself first.

        In Ecclesiastes 3, we read "There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens."  I ...

        Today's Gospel reading from Mark 4 contains the well known verse "To the one who has, more will be given; from the one who ...

        If you believe, love, and trust in God with all your heart, you will receive at least the following ten gifts from him:  (1) joy, (2...