A Reflection from “Meditations on Humility” by Fr. St. Francis Borgia You ought, O devout soul, to make yourself as familiar as you possibly can with these exercises in order that your actions, which are sterile and imperfect in themselves, may become holy and salutary, and that they may merit to be presented to God
A Reflection from “The Handbook of Spiritual Perfection” by Fr. Philip E. Dion Too often a person looks at the past year and beholds only the shambles of the good resolutions he made last year concerning his predominant fault or some virtue he wanted to acquire. Appalled at his lack of success at another year’s
A Reflection from “Meditations on Humility” by Fr. St. Francis Borgia It is easy to know, from the misfortunes that pride has caused in Heaven and on earth, what are the advantages of humility. The Holy Scriptures and the Fathers speak so much in praise of this virtue because its practice is necessary for
A Reflection from “Basic Book of the Eucharist” by Fr. Lawrence Lovasik Let the Eucharist Lead You to the Sacred Heart Devotion to the Sacred Heart, as we now know it, began about the year 1672. On repeated occasions Jesus appeared to St. Margaret Mary, a Visitation nun in France, and during these apparitions
A Reflection from “The Miracle Book” by Anthony DeStefano If you want to obtain a miracle, you must first understand what a miracle is. The word “miracle” has two meanings: a strict definition and a more casual, generic use. It is similar with other words, such as “legend,” which, strictly defined, is a traditional story
A Reflection from “Fairest Flower of Paradise” by Alexis Cardinal Lepicier “Thy name and Thy remembrance are the desire of my soul: my soul hath desired Thee in the night” (Is 26:8–9). God, having decreed that He would become man for the salvation of the human race, at the same time decided that He would
A Reflection from “Padre Pio and You” by Mary O’Regan Pio’s First Spiritual Daughter On a frigid day in January 1904, Pio left Morcone for the Friary of St. Francis of Assisi in the woodsy hamlet of Sant’Elia a Pianisi. Sant’Elia, with its medieval castle ruins and preserved thirteenth-century church, had been a stomping ground
A Reflection from “What the Heart of Jesus Does and Says in the Tabernacle” by St. Manuel Garcia The Heart of Jesus Is Giving the Greatest Love Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13) The great paintings, like grand spectacles, if they are
A Reflection from “Leo XIV: Portrait of the First American Pope” by Matthew Bunson Augustine on the Lake In 1885, a man named Dorr Eugene Felt invented one of the earliest calculating machines, called the comptometer. In a way he never could have expected, nearly a century later, the wealth generated by this device would
A Reflection from “Icon of Trust” by Fr. Slawomir Szkredka Full of Grace The more we comprehend the significance attached to Mary’s yes, the more striking becomes her insignificance, that is, her insignificant standing in the social hierarchy. Again, comparison with Zechariah is very helpful. Zechariah’s status as a priest, his blameless observance of the