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Who’s Speaking?
Discerning the Good Shepherd’s Voice from that of the Stranger
Christ the Good Shepherd said His own recognize His voice and flee from the voice of the stranger. How do we discern which is the right one? Culling counsels and lessons from the spiritual masters of Church Tradition, this book presents the various voices and their corresponding tell-tale signs so as to properly discern spirits. Learning to discover who is speaking will help the reader to be led to green pastures where the Good Shepherd has prepared an everlasting banquet.
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TREATISE ON PURGATORY – Chapter III and Reflection
TREATISE ON PURGATORY by St. Catherine of Genoa
CHAPTER III
SEPARATION FROM GOD IS THE GREATEST PUNISHMENT OF PURGATORY.
WHEREIN PURGATORY DIFFERS FROM HELL.
All the pains of purgatory take their rise from sin, original or actual. God created the soul perfectly pure and free from every spot of sin, with a certain instinctive tendency to find its blessedness in Him. From this tendency it is drawn away by original sin, and still more by the addition of actual sin; and the farther off it gets, the more wicked it becomes, because it is less in conformity with God.
Things are good only so far as they participate in God. To irrational creatures God communicates Himself, without fail, as He wills, and as He has determined; to the rational soul more or less, according as He finds it purified from the impediment of sin ; so that, when a soul is approaching to that state […]
Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost (4th Sunday After Epiphany Resumned) — Sermon by Fr. Ermatinger
Pinned Post
Translation for the Epistle of the 24th Sunday after Pentecost / Fourth Sunday After Epiphany Resumed
John Lawson, cir. 1890
Brethren: Owe no man anything except to love one another; for you who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law. For thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet; and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Love does no evil to a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the Law.
Continuation of the Holy Gospel According to St. Matthew
At that time, Jesus got into a boat, and his disciples followed him. And […]
Meet the Author
Fr. Cliff Ermatinger is a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee where he works full-time as a spiritual consultant and in deliverance ministry. He has a Ph.L and an STL from Regina Apostolorum in Rome and has published 13 books.