finish the job given to you Decades ago, young school age boys had the opportunity to carry a newspaper route in the neighborhoods, on foot, in many areas twice a day and once on Sunday – and be responsible for collecting money from customers once every week and paying for
more hate can mean more endurance One of the great errors of today’s sloganeering society is the demand we choose love or hate. Hate is when you don’t accept a person as they are, or something. Love is when you let the person by who they are, or something. But
perseverance on the path Looking at Biblical figures and stories of the Saints we find several examples of people who exemplified the virtue of fortitude; people like St. Thomas Moore who overcame great difficulty, temptation, and intense and often long suffering. These are prime examples of individuals who have allowed
strong weakness and focus on the right thing What weakness can make us strong? How can falling into sin strengthen us in the future? Falling into sin (weakness) is a wound to your spiritual self, a deep gash; and, after being wounded comes healing (reconciliation and penance) and tough scar
marriage, new life, and Perseverance My wife and I practice natural family planning, but that wasn’t always the case. Natural family planning (NFP) is a method for understanding and working with natural fertility cycles within a marriage. We have done this for about 8 years now. We were not always
a story of a fallen monk (and faith vs. pride) In Father Sergius, a short story by Leo Tolstoy, a wealthy Russian nobleman enters a monastery under questionable motives, but ended up genuinely striving for holiness and virtue, and even finding that the battle for sanctity was worth it! Despite his
finish the job given to you Decades ago, young school age boys had the opportunity to carry a newspaper route in the neighborhoods, on foot, in many areas twice a day and once on Sunday – and be responsible for collecting money from customers once every week and paying for
more hate can mean more endurance One of the great errors of today’s sloganeering society is the demand we choose love or hate. Hate is when you don’t accept a person as they are, or something. Love is when you let the person by who they are, or something. But
perseverance on the path Looking at Biblical figures and stories of the Saints we find several examples of people who exemplified the virtue of fortitude; people like St. Thomas Moore who overcame great difficulty, temptation, and intense and often long suffering. These are prime examples of individuals who have allowed
strong weakness and focus on the right thing What weakness can make us strong? How can falling into sin strengthen us in the future? Falling into sin (weakness) is a wound to your spiritual self, a deep gash; and, after being wounded comes healing (reconciliation and penance) and tough scar
marriage, new life, and Perseverance My wife and I practice natural family planning, but that wasn’t always the case. Natural family planning (NFP) is a method for understanding and working with natural fertility cycles within a marriage. We have done this for about 8 years now. We were not always
a story of a fallen monk (and faith vs. pride) In Father Sergius, a short story by Leo Tolstoy, a wealthy Russian nobleman enters a monastery under questionable motives, but ended up genuinely striving for holiness and virtue, and even finding that the battle for sanctity was worth it! Despite his
