Mortification & Spiritual Progress

Dan and Melissa explore mortification, its meaning, and purpose. Topics: What is mortification? Voluntary actions by which we gradually put to death all of our vices, sinful habits and self-centered tendencies that lurk beneath them.  The purpose of mortification and self-renunciation is about cleaning up “the garden of the soul” as many saints describe it. … Read more

Peace of the Just at Death

PEACE OF THE JUST AT DEATH “The souls of the just are in the hands of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die…but they are in peace.” Wisdom 3:1-2a, 3b The souls of the just are in the hands of God. If … Read more