By Supertradmum Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you. St. Augustine has a lot to say about beauty. Scholars have studied what St. Augustine had to write and
Guest posts by Supertradmum Christ has a warning for us which many ignore or do not understand. Here it is. I do not think I have ever in my adult life heard a sermon on this pericope: Matthew 7:13-14 Douay-Rheims 13 Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the
Guest post by Supertradmum This is a two-part series by a person who has examined her own heart regarding sin and frailty. Some people may think that weakness is not a serious matter for consideration. However, as adult Catholics, we are not to dwell in weakness, not to accept the daily sins which plagued us
This will be my last posting on Jay’s blog for sometime. I have been too ill to continue with my own, and am thankful for Jay for his soapbox. Over the past several years, I have noticed that there is ONE sin which underlines all the sins of people. This is the sin of Avoidance
The coming to a head of the sexual sins of the clergy, bishops and cardinals included, as well as the massive systemic cover-ups will lead to more things than the rolling of heads of some of the major perpetrators. I see, already, several serious problems which will get worse in the next months owing to
It is the opinion of many holy fathers –of St. Basil, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St. Cyril of Alexandria, St. John Chrysostom, St. Augustine, and others–that as God (according to the words of Scripture, Wis. xi. 21–“Thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight”) has fixed for each the number of his
Now Pharaoh was near when the Israelites looked up and saw that the Egyptians had set out after them. Greatly frightened, the Israelites cried out to the LORD. To Moses they said, “Were there no burial places in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing
What is “mortal sin?” With the current buzz about Pope Francis proclaiming certain acts a mortal sin, it may be appropriate to state the Church’s long standing teaching on how to determine if certain acts are a mortal sin. This post is not about making a statement on the Pope’s moral teaching. Certainly, the items
