St. Augustine, Is the Life of Prayer Worth It?
Question 006
Where is all of this leading?
We shall have God as our common object of vision, as our common possession, our common peace, For whatever he gives us now, he shall be to us in place of his present gifts. He shall be our full and perfect peace… Our joy, our peace, our rest, the end of our troubles, is none but […]
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Advent – Time for “Holiday Parties” or Little Lent?
Origionally Published at TAN Direction
“But except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.”
—Luke 13:5
My childhood hero was Bishop Ignatius Kung.
We were told of his heroic suffering as a prisoner. The Chinese Communists (the same ones who recently gifted us with a man-made virus), permitted him to leave his solitary confinement of thirty years if he would only renounce his allegiance to Rome.
As a little boy, and later as a college student, I felt […]
Battle Ready: No Mental Prayer, No Holiness
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“Nonne militia est vita hominis super terram, et sicut dies mercennarii dies eius?”
—Job 7:1, Vulgate
The book of Job asks, “Is not the life of man on earth warfare, and are not his days like that of a hireling?” He seems to think that the answer is obvious, since the question is less a question than an affirmation of an undeniable fact; hence the enclitic particle -ne on the word non. Such a construction says, […]
An Exorcist Goes to the Movies
What better way to inaugurate a blog than to have a guest writer? Per his request, he shall remain anonymous.
Coming home from the office after a hard day’s work presents several possible scenarios for the today’s modern exorcist (henceforth known as TME):
Tune up the cello and saw off an homage to Johann Sebastian B.;
Uncase the ukulele and sing a verse of “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” […]